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- Sep 20, 2018 The following is a list of desktop font sets that are present in the most updated of Windows 10. Below you will also find list of fonts in each of the Feature On Demand (FOD) packages. Please note: Not all of the Desktop fonts will be in non-desktop editions of Windows 10 such as Xbox, HoloLens, Surface Hub, etc.
- The following is a list of desktop font sets that are present in the most updated of Windows 10. Below you will also find list of fonts in each of the Feature On Demand (FOD) packages. Please note: Not all of the Desktop fonts will be in non-desktop editions of Windows 10 such as Xbox, HoloLens, Surface Hub, etc.
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When you upgrade from the Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1 operating system to Windows 10, certain fonts are no longer available by default post-upgrade. To reduce the operating system footprint, improve performance, and optimize disk space usage, we moved many of the fonts that were previously shipped with prior versions of Windows to the optional features of Windows 10. If you install a fresh instance of Windows 10, or upgrade an older version of Windows to Windows 10, these optional features are not enabled by default. As a result, these fonts appear to be missing from the system.
If you have documents created using the missing fonts, these documents might display differently on Windows 10.
For example, if you have an English (or French, German, or Spanish) version of Windows 10 installed, you might notice that fonts such as the following are appear to be missing:
- Gautami
- Meiryo
- Narkism/Batang
- BatangChe
- Dotum
- DotumChe
- Gulim
- GulimChe
- Gungsuh
- GungsuhChe
If you want to use these fonts, you can enable the optional feature to add these back to your system. Be aware that this is a permanent change in behavior for Windows 10, and it will remain this way in future releases.
Installing language-associated features via language settings:
If you want to use the fonts from the optional feature and you know that you will want to view Web pages, edit documents, or use apps in the language associated with that feature, add that language into your user profile. You do this the Settings app.
For example, here are the steps to install the fonts associated with the Hebrew language:
- Click Start > Settings.
- In Settings, click Time & language, and then click Region & language.
- If Hebrew is not included in the list of languages, click the plus sign (+) to add a language.
- Find Hebrew, and then click it to add it to your language list.
Once you have added Hebrew to your language list, then the optional Hebrew font feature and other optional features for Hebrew language support are installed. This should only take a few minutes.
Note: The optional features are installed by Windows Update. This means you need to be online for the Windows Update service to work.
Install optional fonts manually without changing language settings:
If you want to use fonts in an optional feature but don't need to search web pages, edit documents, or use apps in the associated language, you can install the optional font features manually without changing your language settings.
For example, here are the steps to install the fonts associated with the Hebrew language without adding the Hebrew language itself to your language preferences:
Click Start > Settings.
In Settings, click Apps, click Apps & features, and then click Manage optional features.
If you don't see Hebrew Supplemental Fonts in the list of installed features, click the plus sign (+) to add a feature.
Select Hebrew Supplemental Fonts in the list, and then click Install.
Note: The optional features are installed by Windows Update. You need to be online for the Windows Update service to work.
Fonts included in optional font features
Here is a comprehensive list of the font families in each of the optional features. Some font families might include multiple fonts for different weights and styles.
- Arabic Script Supplemental Fonts: Aldhabi, Andalus, Arabic Typesetting, Microsoft Uighur, Sakkal Majalla, Simplified Arabic, Traditional Arabic, Urdu Typesetting
- Bangla Script Supplemental Fonts: Shonar Bangla, Vrinda
- Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Supplemental Fonts: Euphemia
- Cherokee Supplemental Fonts: Plantagenet Cherokee
- Chinese (Simplified) Supplemental Fonts: DengXian, FangSong, KaiTi, SimHei
- Chinese (Traditional) Supplemental Fonts: DFKai-SB, MingLiU, MingLiU_HKSCS, PMingLiU
- Devanagari Supplemental Fonts: Aparajita, Kokila, Mangal, Sanskrit Text, Utsaah
- Ethiopic Supplemental Fonts: Nyala
- Gujarati Supplemental Fonts: Shruti
- Gurmukhi Supplemental Fonts: Raavi
- Hebrew Supplemental Fonts: Aharoni Bold, David, FrankRuehl, Gisha, Levanim MT, Miriam, Miriam Fixed, Narkism, Rod
- Japanese Supplemental Fonts: Meiryo, Meiryo UI, MS Gothic, MS PGothic, MS UI Gothic, MS Mincho, MS PMincho, Yu Mincho
- Kannada Supplemental Fonts: Tunga
- Khmer Supplemental Fonts: DaunPenh, Khmer UI, MoolBoran
- Korean Supplemental Fonts: Batang, BatangChe, Dotum, DotumChe, Gulim, GulimChe, Gungsuh, GungsuhChe
- Lao Supplemental Fonts: DokChampa, Lao UI
- Malayalam Supplemental Fonts: Karthika
- Odia Supplemental Fonts: Kalinga
- Pan-European Supplemental Fonts: Arial Nova, Georgia Pro, Gill Sans Nova, Neue Haas Grotesk, Rockwell Nova, Verdana Pro
- Sinhala Supplemental Fonts: Iskoola Pota
- Syriac Supplemental Fonts: Estrangelo Edessa
- Tamil Supplemental Fonts: Latha, Vijaya
- Telugu Supplemental Fonts: Gautami, Vani
- Thai Supplemental Fonts: Angsana New, AngsanaUPC, Browallia New, BrowalliaUPC, Cordia New, CordiaUPC, DilleniaUPC, EucrosiaUPC, FreesiaUPC, IrisUPC, JasmineUPC, KodchiangUPC, Leelawadee, LilyUPC
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Windows 10Windows 10 converges the Windows platform for use across multiple device categories. The description above of previous releases applies to Windows Client (desktop) and Server editions. This section on Windows 10 covers all Windows 10 editions, including Desktop, Server and Mobile.
All Windows 10 editions support the same set of scripts. In addition to the scripts supported in earlier Windows releases, Windows 10 adds support for several additional, historic scripts. These are supported using the new Segoe UI Historic font:
Brahmi | Indian subcontinent | Segoe UI Historic | Historic |
Carian | Europe | Segoe UI Historic | Historic |
Cypriot | Europe | Segoe UI Historic | Historic |
Egyptian Hieroglyphs | Middle East | Segoe UI Historic | Historic |
Imperial Aramaic | Middle East | Segoe UI Historic | Historic |
Inscriptional Pahlavi | Middle East | Segoe UI Historic | Historic |
Inscriptional Parthian | Middle East | Segoe UI Historic | Historic |
Kharoshthi | Indian subcontinent | Segoe UI Historic | Historic |
Lycian | Europe | Segoe UI Historic | Historic |
Lydian | Europie | Segoe UI Historic | Historic |
Phoenician | Middle East | Segoe UI Historic | Historic |
Old Persian Cuneiform | Middle East | Segoe UI Historic | Historic |
Old South Arabian | Middle East | Segoe UI Historic | Historic |
Shavian | Europe | Segoe UI Historic | English phonetic writing |
Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform | Middle East | Segoe UI Historic | Historic |
Ugaritic Cuneiform | Middle East | Segoe UI Historic | Historic |
Certain other historic scripts were supported in earlier versions in the Segoe UI Symbol font. In order to avoid duplication, the following scripts have been removed from Segoe UI Symbol and included in Segoe UI Historic:
- Glagolitic
- Gothic
- Meroitic Cursive
- Ogham
- Old Italic
- Orkhon
- Runic
In Windows 8.1, the Meiryo UI font family was used for Japanese text in the Windows user interface. On Windows Phone 8.1, the popular Yu Gothic font was used for Japanese. In Windows 10, the user interface font family for Japanese has changed to Yu Gothic UI for all editions. In order to make Yu Gothic UI perform as intended in Windows UI, Yu Gothic UI is adapted from Yu Gothic with certain metric and character width modifications as well as alternate glyphs for Latin characters. For non-UI content, the Yu Gothic fonts are still included. For optimal readability, the OpenType “palt” feature (proportional alternate widths) should be enabled for text formatted with Yu Gothic.
Another change pertaining to user interface fonts is that a semilight weight has been added to the Malgun Gothic family. Otherwise, user interface fonts for other languages are the same as in Windows 8.1.
In Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, private-use-characters in the Segoe UI Symbol font were used for user interface iconography. In Windows 10, the Segoe MDL2 Assets font has been added to provide newer iconography.
An important development in Windows 10 is the Universal Windows Platform (UWP): a converged app platform allowing a developer to create a single app that can run on all Windows devices. Windows fonts are one aspect of this convergence: Windows 10 introduces a recommended UWP font set that is common across all editions that support UWP, including Desktop, Server, Mobile and Xbox.
For information regarding which fonts are included in the recommended UWP font set, complete details are provided in Guidelines for fonts. One important point to note is that the recommended font set does not include all of the weights for certain font families. In particular, due to the large size of East Asian fonts, only the regular weight of East Asian font families are included in the recommended font set.
A number of additional fonts are available for Desktop and Server, including all other fonts from previous releases. However, not all of these are pre-installed by default in all images. In order to make disk usage and font choices more relevant to users according the languages that they use, a number of fonts have been moved into optional on-demand packages. These packages are designed around the different scripts that fonts are primarily intended to support, and most are installed automatically by Windows Update when the associated languages are enabled in language settings (for example, by enabling a keyboard).
Any of these optional font packages can also be installed manually by any user in Settings. One package is not triggered automatically but can be added by enabling it in Settings. To add font packages manually, go to Settings > System > Installed apps > Manage optional features.
The following are the optional font packages that are automatically installed based on changes to language settings:
- Arabic Script Supplemental Fonts
- Bangla Script Supplemental Fonts
- Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Supplemental Fonts
- Cherokee Supplemental Fonts
- Chinese (Simplified) Supplemental Fonts
- Chinese (Traditional) Supplemental Fonts
- Devanagari Supplemental Fonts
- Ethiopic Supplemental Fonts
- Gujarati Supplemental Fonts
- Gurmukhi Supplemental Fonts
- Hebrew Supplemental Fonts
- Japanese Supplemental Fonts
- Khmer Supplemental Fonts
- Kannada Supplemental Fonts
- Korean Supplemental Fonts
- Lao Supplemental Fonts
- Malayalam Supplemental Fonts
- Odia Supplemental Fonts
- Sinhala Supplemental Fonts
- Syriac Supplemental Fonts
- Tamil Supplemental Fonts
- Telugu Supplemental Fonts
- Thai Supplemental Fonts
The following optional font package must be installed manually:
- Pan-European Supplemental Fonts
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Note: These optional packages are for Desktop and Server editions only.
Moving these fonts into optional packages provides over 220 MB of disk savings for users who don’t require these fonts.
Another significant development in Windows 10 from an international perspective is the introduction of a new complex-script shaping engine — the Universal Shaping Engine — that allows any complex script in Unicode 7.0 to be shaped correctly even if the script is not yet supported by a system-provided font. Users have the option to install a suitable OpenType font to get correct shaping behavior for any script in Unicode 7.0.
Note: While the Windows platform is able to support display of additional Unicode 7.0 scripts using non-system fonts, this doesn’t not guarantee that this will work in all apps. In particular, apps that do their own low-level text-display processing may not display a script correctly unless they were explicitly designed to support that script, even though they call platform APIs that use the universal shaping engine. Also note that platform frameworks will not provide font fallback behavior using non-system fonts.
The following complex scripts in Unicode 7.0 are supported in the Universal Shaping Engine.
Balinese, Batak, Brahmi, Buginese, Buhid, Chakma, Cham, Duployan, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Grantha, Hanunoo, Javanese, Kaithi, Kayah Li, Kharoshthi, Khojki, Khudawadi, Lepcha, Limbu, Mahajani, Mandaic, Manichaean, Meitei Mayek, Modi, Mongolian, N’Ko, Pahawh Hmong, Phags-pa, Psalter Pahlavi, Rejang, Saurashtra, Sharada, Siddham, Sinhala, Sundanese, Syloti Nagri, Tagalog, Tagbanwa, Tai Le, Tai Tham, Tai Viet, Takri, Tibetan, Tifinagh, Tirhuta
Other scripts in Unicode 7.0 either are supported in other shaping engines or do not require complex script handling.
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For more background on the Universal Shaping Engine, see Windows shapes the world’s languages.