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Lobsang Monlam Bod-Yig – lobsangmonlam.org
Download Monlam V3 font files, installers for keyboard input and other programs.
MS Himalaya – tibetebook.com
Download ttf (font) file here.
TCRC Bod-Yig – tibet.net
Font supported by CTA Tibet Computer Resource Center. NOT Unicode.
TCRC Youtso Unicode – http://www.popdic.com/dict_tibetan.htm
Download ttf (font) file here.

Arial Unicode MS
http://www.microsoft.com
Tibetan Computer Co http://www.tibet.dk/tcc/page1.htm
Successful company, run by a westerner (Tony Duff), located in Kathmandu. Has written Tibetan software (such as a Word-like app) and fonts. "Started in the mid 1980s with the aim of developing high-class Tibetan software for the IBM PC platform. The company developed the first professional Tibetan word-processing package for the DOS environment, called Tibetan! (version 4). The company has now developed a group of products for the Windows environment. Although the company makes Tibetan software for the use of all, its specific aim is to provide the software, fonts, and expertise needed for the preservation and dissemination of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. To that end, the company provides its software and expertise to the various groups doing that work."
TibetCulture
tibetcul.com
Chinese site?
Yudit Tibetan Unicode
http://yudit.org/download/fonts/utibetan.ttf

U.Virginia — TibetanMachine and TibetanMachineWeb fonts
http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/tools/fonts.html
Not unicode: "These are 8-bit fonts which UDP can use, rather than Unicode since Windows is not quite ready for Unicode Tibetan."

Alanwood — Tibetan Unicode fonts for Windows computers
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts_windows.html
Discussion of TibetanUchen, TCRC Youtso Unicode, and Tibetan Unicode.
Tibetan Fonts Compared, at University of Virgina US
http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/tools/diafonts.html
Explanation, installation, list, and rating of fonts.

Babelstone unicode fonts
http://uk.geocities.com/BabelStone1357/Unicode/fonts.html
Firefox embedded font discussion
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70132
Discussion of using embedded fonts with Firefox. Good info about eot fonts, truetype, many other issues.
Phayul Forum - Tibetan Fonts discussion
http://www.phayul.com/forums/showPost.aspx?postID=134794
"we talk about protecting our Tibetan language and culture. Many people think that protecting the culture is only keeping many books and wearing old dress. That is wrong, there are other ways to protect culture and language. Let me tell you one. It's that we must create a Tibetan font for cell phones."

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