Fonts with many special characters/glyphs?

[muntzing]

Hi!

I'm looking for fonts with great language support and lots of special characters. FF DIN would be an example. More suggestions?

 

 

[Ralf Herrmann]

That’s still too vague as a questions. Hundreds of fonts have a large character sets. Do you have any other requirements/wishes? For example the style of the typeface, the supported languages, the price range …

[muntzing]

Thanks for the quick reply! The full story:

My company’s main product is a web-based encyclopedia. It currently uses Gotham Narrow and Mercury, but we're not happy with the performance of the font provider. Thus we need both a new sans serif and a serif.

True, many many fonts have large character set. But the encyclopedia requires an awful lot of special characters. FF DIN is so far the the only font I've found that’s sufficient. Other suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

 

Best regards!
JM

[Riccardo Sartori]

10 minutes ago, muntzing said:

the encyclopedia requires an awful lot of special characters

I would suggest to look for some expert and/or a foundry willing to customise the typeface to your needs.

[George Thomas]

Have you checked out SIL's fonts? They have extensive language support including for some rather obscure languages.

[mewearl]

any special characters in particular? €, for example?

[muntzing]

@George ThomasThanks for the SIL fonts suggestion! At least one of their serif fonts could function as a replacement for Mercury

@mewearlMore like every special character in every language. :)

[Mo]

what's about Noto by Google?

[mewearl]

On 29.5.2017 at 10:26 AM, Riccardo Sartori said:

I would suggest to look for some expert and/or a foundry willing to customise the typeface to your needs.

I agree with Riccardo re: finding an expert. It's great to just get a number of answers in a matter of minutes instead of scrolling through the internet for days.

[muntzing]

I like Noto! But I think I might have found a temporary solution in Adobe’s Source Sans Pro and Source Serif Pro. Great special character support, SIL license and many weights.

[Riccardo Sartori]

48 minutes ago, muntzing said:

Source Serif Pro. Great special character support, SIL license and many weights.

Be ware, though, of the lack of italics.

[muntzing]

Ha, you're right. Thanks for pointing that out, I didn't notice!