Try <http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/c/c_cyrillic.jhtml>

Cheers,

T

Adobe seems to be case sensitive.

http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/C/C_cyrillic.jhtml (with C)

Thanks guys,

I was actually hoping for a more extensive cyrillic support in a huge set such as this.

Can anyone recommend a collection with more cyrillic opentype faces?

I know that Paratype made good cyrillic fonts and remading typefaces from ITC, AgfaMonotype, Emigre and other major type foundries.

Paratype is certainly the leading type foundry for Cyrillic typefaces in general. I'm not sure how much they have in OpenType format so far.

T

Oh, and though Adobe doesn't have a ton of Cyrillic-supporting typefaces, many of our newer and upcoming releases do support Cyrillic. It's become relatively common for us to do typefaces that support extended Latin, Greek and Cyrillic all in one go.

Regards,

T

That's good to hear. Are those up and coming typefaces cpmpletely new ones or are you going to add cyrillic characters to existing ones as well?

New ones. Three of our next four type families have Cyrillic support (as well as Greek and extended Latin).

I don't think we have any current plans to retrofit Cyrillic characters to any existing typefaces, however.

T

Thomas, does the presence of Cyrillic characters affect where InDesign places the font in its font menu? I recently switched to the OpenType version of Times Ten (which has Cyrillic characters), and find that it sits in its own section near the bottom of the font menu, sandwiched between the Asian type that Adobe and Apple thoughtfully supply (but that I never use).

Yes.

InDesign (and the Mac OS) try to identify the codepage of the font to decide which language section of the font menu it belongs with.

This approach has limitations, of course, when you have fonts that support multiple codepages.

Does this approach seem reasonable to you? What would you suggest?

T

Thanks for the clarification, Thomas.

My preference would be a straightforward alphabetical listing. But I don't do any work with non-Western languages, so I can't comment on the advantages of having the type segregated by language support.

Yes, Thomas, unfortuneately, as i know, Paratype don't make OpenType fonts. I just don't saw that talk was about OpenType exactly. But, however, thank you for encouraging promise about cyrillic support in upcoming Adobe fonts. It's good.

Does this approach seem reasonable to you? What would you suggest?

Give the user a choice.

Resurrect ATM Deluxe as Adobe Type Manager CS and let it give the user fine-grained control over the CS font menu appearance and behavior, even if it can't exercise such control inside non-Adobe apps for lack of access. Now that more and more designers can do all of their work in this or that CS app, font management in other apps matters less and less.

Resurrect ATM Deluxe as Adobe Type Manager CS and let it give the user fine-grained control over the CS font menu appearance and behavior

Now that's an idea. Thomas, please run with this. I know Noha (Edell) at Adobe has been pushing for ATM to come back, and this sounds like a great reason for doing so.

Thanks for the feedback, folks.

I'll note that the font menu stuff John is talking about could be put into a future version of the Creative Suite without any involvement from ATM.

T

Extending Cyrillic (and later Latin) character sets

Hypatia Sans Pro, Thomas’ upcoming typeface family will also include the following characters:
U+0498 Zedescender
U+0499 zedescender
U+04A0 Kabashkir
U+0401 kabashkir
U+04AA Esdescender
U+04AB esdescender
U+04D0 Abrevecyr
U+04D1 abrevecyr
U+04D6 Iebreve
U+04D7 iebreve
U+04F2 Uhungarumlautcyr
U+04F3 uhungarumlautcyr
U+04E6 Odieresiscyr
U+04E7 odieresiscyr
U+04C1 Zhebreve
U+04C2 zhebreve
U+049C Kavert
U+04B8 Chevert
U+049D kavert
U+04B9 chevert

These characters will add coverage for a few more Cyrillic languages:
Azeri
Bashkir
Chuvash
Dargin
Komi (Zyrian & Permyak)
Moldavian (Cyrillic)

First, Thomas and speter, both those links result in an infinite redirect between www.adobe.com... and store.adobe.com... But, this one does the trick:
http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/C/C_cyrillic.html

Second, may I applaud Adobe’s efforts to design fonts with the whole character-set enchilada: Latin, Cyrillic and Greek. (Though, would a Greek enchilada feature feta? I digress.) I, for one, set a lot of type that features other languages and certainly prefer to use the same font for all the different editions. However, there are precious few quality fonts that feature the character-set trifecta and even fewer that also include support for East Asian diacritics (specifically, for me, Vietnamese).

So, thanks, Thomas, for Myriad Pro, Minion Pro, Warnock Pro, Garamond Premier Pro, etc. I look forward to seeing the three new fonts soon. I can only hope that other foundries follow your example in this global age of communication to offer their fonts to users of non-Western alphabets.

“Though, would a Greek enchilada feature feta?”

Only if you are a fetalist :-)

ChrisL