Kurdish typography

Kurdish Fonts refers to fonts that have Sorani alphabet glyphs. Kurds in Iraq and Iran mainly use this alphabet, though the Kurmanji alphabet is also in use.

The Sorani Kurdish dialect is mainly written using a modified Arabic-based alphabet with 33 letters. Unlike the regular Arabic alphabet, which is an abjad, Sorani is an alphabet in which vowels are mandatory, making the script easy to read.Kurdish Fonts refers to fonts that have Sorani alphabet (a Modified Arabic alphabet) glyphs. Kurds in Iraq and Iran mainly use this alphabet, though the Kurmanji alphabet is also in use.

The Sorani Kurdish dialect is mainly written using a modified Arabic-based alphabet with 33 letters. Unlike the regular Arabic alphabet, which is an abjad, Sorani is an alphabet in which vowels are mandatory, making the script easy to read.

Table of Sorani alphabet Characters in Unicode

Unicode fonts

non-Unicode fonts

* [http://kurditgroup.org/fontconvertor Online programs] for converting non-Unicode fonts to Unicode
* [http://www.ribaz.com/key.html Kurdish Key & Font Convertor] , a free software for converting Ali Fonts to Unicode and vice versa by [http://www.ribaz.com/ Ribaz Font] .

Ali fonts

Ribaz fonts

[http://www.ribaz.com/ Ribaz Font] , 99 non-Unicode fonts suited from Arabic fonts. [http://www.kurdpro.com/RibazFont_(99Font)2009.zip Download .zip file]

Zanest fonts

Dilan fonts

Web fonts

*Unikurd Web
*Tahoma & Tahoma Bold

See also

*Kurdish alphabet
*Arabic alphabet