Universal Language Selector/WebFonts/WebFonts Status
WebFonts were introduced for Wikimedia projects in 2011 to solve problems for some scripts where fonts were not available for most commonly used devices/operating systems, or the fonts were not recent enough to support the script fully.
With task T135465 and task T135464, we are reducing footprint of webfonts as most of languages are already supported by modern operating systems. Some fonts are now being investigated and updated or removed accordingly.
Fonts that are default for a language are usually not removed unless a font for it had become very common in all operating systems, and the font provided by Universal Language Selector doesn't provide value.
Fonts that are used in local styles on projects or fonts for rare and hard-to-support languages are not supposed to be removed.
WebFonts status in Universal Language Selector Extension edit
| Language Code | Language name | Font | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| he | Hebrew | Alef | ||
| Miriam CLM | ||||
| Taamey Frank CLM | Taamey Frank CLM is used in wikisource | |||
| yi | Yiddish | Alef | ||
| bug | Buginese | Saweri* | ||
| mak | Makasar | Saweri* | ||
| pal | Middle Persian (Pahlavi) | Shapour* | ||
| peo | Old Persian | Artaxerxes* | ||
| pa | Punjabi | Lohit Punjabi* | Removed | |
| Saab | ||||
| lo | Lao | Phetsarath* | ||
| gu | Gujarati | Lohit Gujarati* | Removed | |
| hbo | Ancient Hebrew | Taamey Frank CLM* | Taamey Frank CLM is used in wikisource | |
| Alef | ||||
| ahr | Khandeshi (अहिराणी) | Lohit Marathi* | Removed | |
| mr | Marathi | Lohit Marathi* | Removed | |
| ne | Nepali | Lohit Nepali* | Removed | |
| Madan | ||||
| bh | Bihari | Lohit Devanagari* | Removed | |
| bho | Bhojpuri | Lohit Devanagari* | Removed | |
| gom | Goan Konkani | Lohit Devanagari* | Removed | |
| hi | Hindi | Lohit Devanagari* | Removed | |
| kok | Konkani | Lohit Devanagari* | Removed | |
| mai | Maithili | Lohit Devanagari* | Removed | |
| sa | Sanskrit | Lohit Devanagari* | Removed | |
| arc | Aramaic | Estrangelo Edessa* | ||
| East Syriac Adiabene | ||||
| SertoUrhoy | ||||
| syc | Syriac (ܣܘܪܝܝܐ) | Estrangelo Edessa* | ||
| East Syriac Adiabene | ||||
| SertoUrhoy | ||||
| or | Odia | Lohit Oriya* | Removed | |
| Utkal | ||||
| kn | Kannada | Lohit Kannada* | Removed | |
| Gubby | ||||
| ta | Tamil | Lohit Tamil | Removed | |
| Lohit Tamil Classical | ||||
| Thendral | ||||
| Thenee | ||||
| tcy | Tulu | Lohit Kannada* | Removed | |
| te | Telugu | Lohit Telugu* | Removed | |
| saz | Saurashtra (ꢱꣃꢬꢵꢯ꣄ꢡ꣄ꢬꢵ) | Pagul* | ||
| km | Khmer | KhmerOSbattambang* | ||
| Hanuman | ||||
| KhmerOS | ||||
| Nokora | ||||
| Suwannaphum | ||||
| dv | Divehi | FreeFont-Thaana* | ||
| ii | Sichuan Yi | Nuosu SIL* | ||
| ml | Malayalam | AnjaliOldLipi | Removed | |
| Meera | ||||
| my | Burmese | TharLon* | ||
| Myanmar3 | ||||
| Padauk | ||||
| bn | Bengali | Siyam Rupali* | ||
| Lohit Bengali | Removed | |||
| bpy | Bishnupria Manipuri | Siyam Rupali* | ||
| Lohit Bengali | Removed | |||
| cr | Cree (ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ) | OskiEast* | ||
| am | Amharic | AbyssinicaSIL* | ||
| gez | Ge'ez | AbyssinicaSIL* | ||
| ti | Tigrinya | AbyssinicaSIL* | ||
| tig | Tigre | AbyssinicaSIL* | ||
| dz,bo and languages in Tibetan script | Dzongkha, Standard Tibetan,… | Jomolhari* | ||
| jv-java | Javanese (ꦧꦱꦗꦮ) | Tuladha Jejeg* | ||
| sux | Sumerian | Akkadian* | ||
| akk | Akkadian | Akkadian* | ||
| as | Assamese | Lohit Assamese | Removed | |
| cdo | Min Dong Chinese | CharisSIL | ||
| cy, en , id, ms, nl, sw, tl | English and many other languages.. | ComicNeue | ||
| nan | Min nan | Doulos SIL | ||
| CharisSIL | ||||
| grc | Ancient Greek | GentiumPlus | ||
| ur | Urdu | Hussaini Nastaleeq | ||
| NafeesWeb | ||||
| fa | Persian | Iranian Sans | ||
| Iranian Serif | ||||
| Lateef | ||||
| Nazli | ||||
| Scheherazade | ||||
| ang | Old English | Junicode | ||
| ckb | Central Kurdish | Lateef | ||
| Scheherazade | ||||
| si | Sinhala | lklug | ||
| su | Sundanese | NotoSansSundanese | ||
| en etc | English and many other languages.. | OpenDyslexic | ||
| iu | Inuktitut | OskiEast | ||
| bbc, btk | Batak | Pangururan | ||
| got | Gothic | Skeirs II | ||
| jv | Javanese | Tuladha Jejeg | ||
| - | - | RailwaySans | Usage in css stylesheets etc | |
| - | - | LinuxLibertine | ||
| - | - | UnifrakturMaguntia |
* Default font
See also edit
- Read more about Webfonts and their use on Wikimedia projects
- task T180422 - Investigate and update Webfonts.
- task T55015 - Tracker for Webfonts update request.