| Brief Description: | AfroRoman® in Unicode™ is available for both Windows and Macintosh and provides professional-quality, Unicode-encoded fonts in TrueType® OpenType® format in five typestyles (Times®-, Helvetica®-, Garamond-, Palatino®-, and Zapf Chancery®-styles), each in plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic styles (except AfroRomanChanU, which is plain only. AfroRoman in Unicode (hereafter AfroRomanU) supports more than 1540 African languages, plus English and other west European (or Latin 1) languages. These beautiful, unique fonts contains 1947 letters, accents, diacritics, and accented character combinations that are easily typed with the included keyboard software. The AfroRomanU fonts support the following African languages (see the expanded lists under Bantu, Chadic, and Dinka):
Acholi
Afrikaans
Bantu
Bobangi
Buluba-Lulua
Chadic
chiKaranga
Chishona
Dinka
Ewe
Fulani-Adamawa
Fulani
Ga
Hausa
Igbo
Kanuri
Karanga
Kinyarwanda
Kongo
Lu-Gande
Masai
Matabele
Mende
Mole
Namaquah
Ndebele
Northern Sotho
Nuer
Nyika
Pedi
Serere
Setswana
Shona
SiSwati
Somali
Sotho
Swahili
Tebele
Temne
Tswana
Twi
Umbundu
Vai
Western Sotho
Wolof
Wolof of Senegal
Yao
Yoruba
Zulu
*Ewe is also known as Ebwe, Efe, Ehwe, Eibe, Eue, Eve, Gbe, Krepe, Krepi, Popo, and Vhe.
The AfroRomanU fonts also support the following Latin 1 languages: Albanian, Basque, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, Flemish, French, Galician, German, Hawaiian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, and Swedish.
AfroRoman in Unicode for Windows includes six keyboard layouts that provide four-characters-per-key input (instead of the normal two-characters-per-key) in Windows Vista, XP, 2000 and NT4. The keyboards are phonetic, based on the US keyboard, and allow easy input of all characters and diacritics supported by the fonts. |
