Church font capital letters. Orthodox Monasticism: Fonts, Programs, Miscellaneous

In my opinion, today there are no generally accepted fonts that allow you to work correctly, beautifully and, most importantly, conveniently with Church Slavonic texts. Here are some of the ones I found on the web. To install any of them on your computer, do a number of simple operations:
1. Save the archive file I proposed on your disk (double-click on the link).
2. Unzip it using for example WinRar or WinZip.
3. In the Start menu - Settings - Control Panel, open the "Fonts" folder.
4. Click the menu File - Install font and specify the path to the unpacked file.
5. After installation, you can safely use this font in text editors (for example, in Word).
6. Some archives may contain several files, in this case read the readme file for instructions on installing fonts.

1. Fonts

  1. The Irmologion font group (311 kb) also contains a *.dot template for working in Word /author-Vladislav Dorosh/
  2. Another version of the font "Izhitsa" (30 kb)
  3. Another version of the Cyrillic font (38 kb)
  4. Another font "Cyrillic" (39 kb)
  5. Font group "Orthodox" (137 kb)
  6. Font "Church Slavonic" (79 kb)
  7. Font "Anastasia" (55 kb) Some scores in *.pdf format, located in the *Kliros* section, were created unprofessionally, so fonts are displayed incorrectly in them. If you encounter this problem, try installing the font "Anastasia", which is responsible for displaying notes and musical notation.
  8. Fonts "SchoolBook" and "AG_Garamond" (193 kb) These fonts were used in the scores of the Moscow Regency Singing Seminary. The authors obviously haven't fully figured out how to create pdf documents, so fonts are not displayed in their scores. Download this archive and install the fonts.

Irmologion

The typeface is based on the typeface from the editions of the Synodal Printing House of the early 20th century. The name is taken from the book from which it was redrawn: Irmologion, 1913 edition. The UCS font is based on the old Irmologion 13-font collection.

This is my first type work, unprofessional and naive. In addition to numerous technical flaws, the font also reproduces the original typeface rather inaccurately. At the time of the creation of Irmologion, I had neither the experience nor the technical means necessary for the high-quality reproduction of the pre-revolutionary font.

Unfortunately, this rather unsuccessful work has become a classic and is used in many user projects, so I have to leave Irmologion on the site. If you do not need to maintain compatibility with Irmologion, I recommend using a more successful analogue of the synodal typeface - .

Please note: for typing with this and all other UCS fonts, it is highly recommended to download and install the "Irmology-4" package from the "Programs" section. Entering and editing Church Slavonic texts using only the normal keyboard layout is possible, but very difficult. The "Irmology-4" package will allow you to do this much more conveniently and more correctly.

Hirmos

Unlike Irmologion, the "Irmos" font really repeats the typeface from the editions of the Synodal Printing House of the early 20th century. (for example, "Irmology" 1913). This is a remake of my first work (Irmologion), which, like any "first pancake", is not successful. If you do not need to maintain compatibility with the Irmologion font, use Hirmos: the new font is made more professionally, qualitatively and authentically.

Characteristics of the font set:

Triodion

This typeface is quite common in the publications of the Synodal Printing House of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and, I hope, is best known to today's singers and readers. For example, modern patriarchal (publishing houses of the Moscow Patriarchate) reprints of both Triodey, the Book of Hours, the Missal, the Typicon and many other publications are typed in this typeface.

Characteristics of the font set:

StaroUspenskaya

The typeface is taken from the Psalter of the edition of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, presumably in the middle of the 19th century. In addition to the specific details that make any Kiev-Pechersk typeface recognizable, this typeface leaves an impression of the severity and severity of the design. When looking at him, frosty Solovki and Valaam come to mind, but... he was born in warm Ukraine.

The compactness of lowercase letters makes it indispensable in musical subtexts, and the beauty of capital letters makes it an excellent candidate for a set of capitalized headings. Although its main purpose, of course, is a set of basic text.

Characteristics of the font set:

Ostrog

The typeface is taken from publications of the second half of the 16th century (printing houses of the cities of Vilna and Ostroh). The creator of the typeface, presumably, is Pyotr Mstislavets, an East Slavic typographer, an associate of the pioneer printer Ivan Fedorov.

Capital letters, in my opinion, do not really match the rest of the font, and they do not fit well with each other (but this is just my personal opinion). Lowercase letters are definitely gone.

Characteristics of the font set:

Akathistos

The typeface was used in synodal editions of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The size (size) of the original letters is quite large: the height of lowercase letters is about 5 mm. Altar Gospels, large-format editions of akathists, etc. were typed with this typeface.

There is a famous modern font drawn from the same typeface: Evangelie (Orthodox). My version is redrawn and closer to the original.

Characteristics of the font set:

Evangelie

Typeface by SoftUnion ((C) 1994 SoftUnion Ltd. Created by A. Shishkin and N. Vsesvetskii). I just recoded it, made the necessary ligatures and added kerning. However, I didn’t really try, because the network has a much more perfect alteration of this headset for UCS, called Orthodox. I strongly recommend using it, it is designed very high quality. .

The characteristics of this particular variant are not particularly impressive:

Pochaevsk

The original typeface was used in liturgical books of the last century, published by the printing house of the Pochaev Lavra. Pochaevsk Ucs was based on a fairly accurate digital version of Pochaevsk. There are references to different designers in different font variants: Orthodox Information Data Associates (year unknown); Starin, Russian Antiquities, developed by Nikita Simmons (1996); Archbishop John (1999). It can be assumed that the original font was made by OIDA, after which it was redesigned by two other designers.

In Pochaevsk Ucs, I reworked the metrics of many characters, added letter-titles for capital letters, and carefully worked out kerning.

Feofan

Font from Lenpoligraphmash ((С) AO Lenpoligraphmash, 1994). I just recoded it, and added kerning here and there. I have not seen a typeface similar to this typeface in old printed editions.

Oglavie

The main, most common heading typeface from pre-revolutionary publications. In printed originals, there are many variants of this typeface, which differ from each other in small details. The Oglavie font repeats one of them.

Of modern commercial fonts, Oglavie is most similar to Slavjanic, but is drawn with higher quality and differs from it in greater compactness and contrast.

Slavjanic

Unfortunately, the author of the original computer headset is not determined (there is only the year of creation, 1992). I added the missing Church Slavonic letters and the letter-title there, worked out the kerning. Several existing symbols have also been redesigned to fully comply with the pre-revolutionary originals.

The font is similar to Oglavie, but lower quality and has different proportions and contrast. It is posted here for compatibility reasons: for a long time Slavjanic was the only font of this type available in Ucs8 encoding. Slavjanic is recommended if you already have text in this font. Otherwise, use Oglavie.

Kathisma

A fairly common heading typeface from pre-revolutionary publications of the 18th - 20th centuries.

There is a fairly well-known commercial font Psaltyr, reproduced from the same printed samples as Kathisma. There are few differences: the Kathisma letters are slightly wider, but the letter spacings are smaller; some letters are drawn differently; kerning worked out more carefully.

I will not hide the fact that the main goal of developing a typeface similar to an existing one from scratch is to create a free, non-commercial version that reproduces a rather beautiful pre-revolutionary typeface.

Encoding - as in capital fonts.

Psalter

The original digital font was designed by Nikita Vsesvetskii ((C) SoftUnion Ltd., 1994. Created by N.Vsesvetskii). The font has its own analogue in pre-revolutionary publications. True, the author of the digital version slightly changed the proportions of the letters (in relation to the original typeface, the letters in the font are vertically elongated by 20-30 percent) and, on the contrary, pushed up and squeezed the superscripts (in the original font, the superscripts feel more free). Without taking into account these two points, as well as some small simplifications in the design of letters, the digital font is a fairly accurate copy of the original pre-revolutionary one.

Strictly speaking, the original Psaltyr font is commercial. There is a free version of this font -- . The font Psaltyr Ucs is posted on this site for compatibility purposes: for a long time Psaltyr was the only font that reproduces this beautiful pre-revolutionary prototype. Psaltyr Ucs is recommended if you already have text in this font. Otherwise, use Kathisma.

Zlatoust

The idea of ​​the headset was taken from the spine of a pre-revolutionary liturgical collection. The missing letters are recreated in the general style. The drawing of the letters is related to the handwritten ligature of the 15th-16th centuries, however, it does not have serifs and "knots" on the lines of the letters.

The font is suitable for designing various kinds of headings. The inclusion of kerning is highly desirable, because the drawing of the letters suggests this. Encoding - as in capital fonts.

Posad

Another decorative font suitable for headings. Similar to Zlatoust, but with serifs and knots. Enabling kerning is highly desirable. Encoding - as in capital fonts.

Indycton

Headset for letters. Drawn by me from pre-revolutionary publications. There are all letters, even those that are not found in the form of initial letters. The contours are quite complex, which can strain the rasterizers. About a third of the letters had to be invented by myself, since I could not find their early printed originals due to the rare statistical frequency of the use of these letters as the initial beginning of texts.

The font encoding is the same as in capital fonts, however, to use it in the design of drop caps, it is better to use a special add-on available in the Irmology-4 package.

Vertograd

Another letter font. The typeface is quite common in pre-revolutionary publications. Not all letters are available yet, but the font can be used. Unlike the Indycton typeface, the letters of this font have many common elements and lines, therefore, without forgetting the measure, it is quite appropriate to use the font for typing whole words and heading phrases. There is no kerning for this yet, but it is expected.

Let me remind you that for the design of drop caps it is better to use a special add-on available in the Irmology-4 package.

Bukvica

The author of the font is Konstantin Spektorov. The typeface reproduces initial letters from the winter (1642) and summer (1643) parts of the Prologue. Initial letters of this type were widely used in publications of the Moscow Printing House in the 17th century.

The font is supposed to be used only for drop caps. This is due to some restrictions in the composition of letters and signs. There are all letters, except for the "ligature uk", b, y, b. Of the superscripts, only oxia, zveletso and iso are present. There are no punctuation marks. Kerning takes into account only the combination of some vowels with the caller and "iso".


All fonts are packed with WinRAR archiver. You can download the latest version of WinRAR from the manufacturer's website: www.rarlab.com.

Old fonts

I give my old fonts here only for compatibility. Probably, there are many documents typed by the old Irmologion Ucs, which for some reason do not want to be converted, bringing them to the new Irmologion Ucs (the converter is included in the "Irmologion-4" package, available in the "Programs" section). To be able to read such documents, you can download the old Irmologion here. The fonts in this section are no longer supported. If instead of letters on the screen squares glow, if the upper parts of the letters are not visible, it is better to convert such text into a new UCS font. The converter is designed in such a way that it "pulls out" the text even from most cases of "squares and questions", while sparing the layout.

Irmologion-2

13 font collection, typing template and documentation. There are two options: one that works in Word 95-97 and PageMaker, and one that works in Word 97-2000. Choose any one. Both sets cannot be installed at the same time. The font is outdated and no longer supported, replaced by . I repeat:

font not supported!

We kindly ask you not to send letters with requests to correct the superscripts cut off in new systems, complaints about "squares", etc. The fonts are laid out not for use in serious work, but in order to somehow read the old texts and overtake them with converters into new fonts (and the like).

Old Indycton

Old alphabet font. The font is outdated and no longer supported, replaced by .

Basic information

In order to use the Church Slavonic dictionary of the orthodic.org project, you do not need to install Church Slavonic fonts, but it is desirable, as this will reduce traffic and increase the speed of loading the site. In addition, you will be able to more comfortably use the search for Church Slavonic words.

If you want to translate Church Slavonic words in the editor mode, then you simply need to install Church Slavonic fonts. Without them, work in the Church Slavonic editor is impossible.

In order to install the Church Slavonic font, you first need to download them from here. You can download the font package for work here:

  • zip (3.4 MB) - http://www.orthodic.org/files/cs-fonts.zip
  • tar.gz (3.4 MB) - http://www.orthodic.org/files/cs-fonts.tar.gz

You can also download fonts from the developer's page. To unpack, you must have the rar unpacker installed. The required minimum is the "Triodion" font. Download type "TrueType". "Type1" does not need to download.

Installing fonts on MS Windows systems

  1. Download the archive with fonts to some temporary folder.
  2. Unzip the archive. After unpacking, you will receive one or more files with the .ttf extension. These are the font files.
  3. Launch the "Control Panel" ("Start" button, "Control Panel").
  4. Launch the "Fonts" icon. If "Fonts" is not visible, it might make sense to click on "Switch to Classic View" (on the left). After launching the "Fonts" item, a window will appear with a list of all installed fonts.
  5. Select the menu item "File"/ "Install Font...".
  6. In the window that appears, select the folder where you unpacked the font files. Wait while the system reads the font files and displays their names.
  7. Select all (or just the ones you need) font names. Click OK.

Installing fonts on Linux systems

  • We go to the home folder:
cd ~
  • Create a folder for fonts.fonts, if it does not exist:
mkdir .fonts
  • Let's go into it:
cd .fonts
  • Download archive with fonts:
wget http://www.orthodic.org/files/cs-fonts.tar.gz
  • Unpacking fonts:
tar xvfz cs-fonts.tar.gz
  • Delete the archive after ourselves:
rm -f xvfz cs-fonts.tar.gz
  • We overload the car

Installing Fonts on Mac OS Systems

  1. Unpack the downloaded font archives.
  2. Close all open applications before installing fonts. New fonts will not appear in some applications if those applications are launched during the font installation process.
  3. Copy the fonts to the /Library/Fonts/ folder

FONTS

A set of fonts for the correct display of texts from our site. Download(743 Kb)

Some of the texts on our site are typed using Church Slavonic and pre-revolutionary Tsarist fonts (texts with "Yats"). Therefore, for the correct display of texts from our site, you will need to download and install (see font installation instructions) on your computer necessary minimum fonts (this package contains 4 basic fonts: Royal Times New Roman , Royal Arial , Elizabeth tt Uni (removed on REQUEST) and Irmologion Ucs).

Fonts of the Royal Orthography

The texts of the Tsarist (pre-revolutionary) spelling from our site were typed usingencoding fonts Unicode. Tsarist orthography fonts are fonts containing symbols of pre-revolutionary Russian orthography (i.e., the spelling that was in force in Russia before 1918).

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Standard fonts Unicode (ensure the correct display of texts from our site)

Arial Unicode MS(included inWindows)

Church Slavonic fonts

Church Slavonic texts from our site are typed withusing encoding fonts UCS8. Below is a collection of the best fonts for this encoding (fonts are taken from sites:www.irmologion.ru. and www.orthonord.ru) We would like to draw your attention to the fact that in order to fully use the Church Slavonic fonts, you need to download and install the “Irmology 4” package, becauseEntering and editing Church Slavonic texts using only the normal keyboard layout is possible, but very difficult. The "Irmology-4" package will allow you to do this much more conveniently and faster.

In order to get acquainted with the design of the fonts below (see how the fonts look), click here . See the instructions for installing fonts..

Irmologion Ucs

Download(469 Kb)

Triodion Ucs

Download(430 Kb)

StaroUspenskaya Ucs

Download(429 Kb)

Evangelie Ucs(removed on REQUEST)

Download(40 Kb)

Orthodox (installation package)

Download(802 Kb)

Pochaevsk Ucs

Download(356 Kb)

Feofan Ucs

Download(32 Kb)

Slavjanic Ucs

Download(141 Kb)

Zlatoust Ucs

Download(150 Kb)

Indycton Ucs

Download(182 Kb)

Vertograd Ucs

Cyrillic Brush Medium (TrueType)

For full-fledged work with Church Slavonic texts, you need to download and install the package "Irmology-4" (developer site:www.irmologion.ru). This package is built into the program Microsoft Word and allows you to:

a ) open and save in Microsoft Word Church Slavonic texts in HIP format (more about the format hip read on site "Library C patristic literature" www.orthlib.ru. ). Very often Church Slavonic texts are presented in the format hip . Therefore, no package"Irmology-4" You will be extremely limited when working with Church Slavonic texts.

b) Enter and edit texts typed in Church Slavonic coding fonts UCS8. Entering and editing Church Slavonic texts using only the normal keyboard layout is possible, but very difficult. The "Irmology-4" package will allow you to do this much more conveniently and more correctly.

More information about package "Irmology-4" can be found on the developer's websitewww.irmologion.ru Download ( 34 Kb)

BIBLE SOFTWARE

biblequote)

"Scripture" - a program for working with the Bible and other texts. Thanks to its simple extensibility, Bible Quote can serve you as a librarian, allowing you to read and study on your computer not only the texts of the Bible, but also the texts of your favorite books stored in electronic form. http://bqt.ru/ and http://jesuschrist.ru/software/. We advise everyone who plans to use "Bible Quote" to visit these pages. On them you will find a lot of interesting things not only about the program itself, but also about Christian software in general. You should be prepared in advance for the fact that almost all Christian software developers are Protestants.

Bible Quote Help (biblequote). A brief guide to the program "Bible Quote" (BibleQuote) can be found .If you need more detailed information about the program, please contact here .

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This distribution includes: Church Slavonic Gennadiev Bible in Russian font, Russian Synodal translation of the Bible, Strong's Lexicons and Zondervan's thematic symphony on the Bible.

Download ( 4,73 MB)

Program "Quote from the Bible" (BibleQuote ), version 5.01 (variantmiddle)

This distribution kit includes: Church Slavonic Gennadiev Bible in Russian font, Russian Synodal translation of the Bible, Strong's Lexicons, Zondervan's thematic symphony on the Bible, as well as Brockhaus and Vikhlyantsev's Bible dictionaries.

Download (9.09 MB)

Program "Quote from the Bible" (BibleQuote ), version 5.01 (variantmax)

For those who have fast Internet, here is the downloaded version of the program. This distribution includes a huge number of various modules. All these modules can be downloaded separately .

Download (67.26 MB)

Program "Quote from the Bible" ( Bible Quote), version 4.5.1 “Light in the East”

This package contains only the shell. There are no modules in it, not even the module of the Bible itself. All modules will have to be downloaded manually. If you already have version 5.01 and higher, then downloading this version does not make any sense (version 5.01 is a much more advanced version of the program than 4.5.1. More details about this version of the program can be found at http://www.lio.ru/download.html

Download (1.05 MB)

Program "Quote from the Bible" ( Bible Quote), version 4.5

This package contains only the shell. There are no modules in it, not even the module of the Bible itself. All modules will have to be downloaded manually. If you already have version 5.01 and higher, then downloading this version does not make any sense.

If you need to type text not in any of the Church Slavonic fonts, but in "citizen", but in compliance with the norms of the old spelling (with the signs "yat" and "fita"), then you can use free fonts developed by Roman Pavlov: Academy Old, Academy Old Narrow, New Standard Old, New Standard Old Narrow, New Standard Old Narrow Bold, New Standard Unicode. You can also download them on our website.

How to insert "yat" or "fit" into the text after installing the fonts?

Open the "Insert" section in Word, go to the "Insert Symbol" tab. In the window that opens, select the font that contains the letters you need (for example, Academy Old, as shown in the figure below).

Select the letter you need in the list of font characters (for example, a large "yat"), click on the "Keyboard Shortcut" button (see the figure above) and assign it.

So, if you have chosen as a combination for "yat" the simultaneous pressing of the keys CTR and Ё (CTR + Ё), when you press them, "yat" will be inserted into your text.

How to install the font in the system?

Set of fonts (2002 Andrushchenko N.A.
Spaso-Preobrazhensky Solovetsky Stauropegial Monastery. e-mail: [email protected]) ; this is a set of fonts designed for layout of liturgical texts in Church Slavonic.


Fonts designed in accordance with the requirements of the draft standard
Unified Church Slavonic encoding of 8-bit fonts UCS8
(Unified Church Slavonic Standard).

This set includes the following fonts:

Orthodox.tt Ucs8 - main font.

Orthodox.tt Ucs8 SpacedOut - font with spaced characters. Implemented as "italics" of the original font.

Orthodox.tt Ucs8 Tight - a font with a dense arrangement of characters.

Orthodox.tt Ucs8 Caps - font for a set of capitalized headings, i.e. headings consisting of capital letters.

Orthodox.tt Ucs8 Caps SpacedOut- capitalized font with character spacing. Implemented as "Italic
face" capitalized font.

Orthodox.tt Ucs8 Caps Tight - dense capitalized font.

Orthodox.tt eRoos - Extended ROOS encoded font, i.e. containing Church Slavonic letters arranged according to
ROOS standard, Arabic numerals and special characters
(signs of the Typicon, the symbol of the Markov chapter, etc.).

Orthodox.tt eRoos SpacedOut - Extended ROOS encoded font with character spacing. Implemented as the "italic" font of the eRoos font.

Orthodox.tt Ucs8 Drop Caps - font containing patterned caps.

You can download the font package (exe-file 712 kb) from , you can find the latest version of the font package ().


2002 Andrushchenko N.A., Severodvinsk.

For all questions please contact:
[email protected] [email protected] , www.orthodoxy.ru/orthonord , www.arh.ru/~naa

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