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Fonts and Keyboards

Below are some commonly available fonts and the associated keyboard layouts.  They are provided in Zipped files to prevent damage which can occur when they are moved from one computing environment to another.


Unicode Fonts

Pigiarniq  This font was professionally developed by the Government of Nunavut in association with  Tiro Typesetting;  http://www.tiro.com  and is an excellent general purpose font that uses the modern Unicode standard.  Unzip the file below to obtain four versions - regular, bold, light and Italic

Pigiarniq.zip

Nunacom U    This is one of the early Unicode fonts developed by Multedata.  It has largely been replaced by Pigiarniq.

NUNACOMU.zip

Ballymun   This is another Uncode Font developed by Ron Ogawa

ballymun.zip

Non Unicode Fonts

These fonts are all non standard encoding, meaning that without the specific font used to create the document, thet are unintelligible.  Using a different font will produce unusable text.

With the Inuktitut Utilities developed by Multedata for the Government of Nunavut, it is possible to reliably convert from one font to another, using the Pigiarniq standard font as a common pivot point.

For the PC

ProSyl             PROSYL.zip

Naamajut    NAAMAJUTPC.zip

Aujaq              Aujaq2.ttf

Nunacom7    nunacom7.zip

OldSyl             OLDSY8.zip

For the MacIntosh

Naamajut       NaamujutMAC.zip

 

Keyboard Layouts

The following document provides the keyboard layouts for use with different fonts.

Keyboards.zip