In general our Tibetan typefaces, designed and created by Tony Duff, are regarded as the
best in the world. They are praised by Tibetan experts for their
beauty and are unanimously accepted as the most authentic Tibetan fonts
available.
Our Tibetan Machine typeface is our basic typeface but has many design features that make it
very attractive to use. For many years this typeface was available only in our TCC
encoding. In 2001 we put the typeface into the public domain so that everyone could
use it for free. A unicode version called "Tibetan Machine Uni" was produced by
David Germano at the University of Virginia and distributed through his Himalayan Digital
Library. Unfortunately, the work was poorly done and the typeface was badly
damaged. The "Tibetan Machine Uni" had its design modified by someone who did
not understand Tibetan lettering, the typeface was sized incorrectly, and the typeface
had an incorrect baseline set, too.
Therefore, we have made a new unicode version that presents the original typeface as it
should be. This is the authentic Tibetan Machine typeface now unicoded. It
is named "TibetanMachineUnicode" and is available free from this site. Because this
is the real typeface, undamaged, and correctly made into a unicode font, it looks much
clearer and prints much better on any computer than the damaged version.
Many people have used the damaged "Tibetan Machine Uni" code font from the University
of Virginia because nothing better was available. Now that we have made the
original typeface available in unicode encoding, we encourage you to download and
use the authentic "TibetanMachineUnicode" typeface available from this site and to
delete damaged the Tibetan Machine Uni font.
Many Tibetans come to our site looking for free Tibetan fonts. This font is what
they are looking for. It is the best Tibetan unicode font available at this time.
See samples of the free typeface:
Go here to read more
about Tibetan Machine typeface and to see samples of it: Tibetan Machine
Download the free typeface:
Download the authentic version of Tibetan Machine Unicode for free from
the download page.
Formats:
Tibetan Machine Unicode is an opentype font in a truetype package. It will work on
Windows XP onwards and on Mac OSX 10.6 onwards. It will also work on other operating systems
that have support for opentype unicode fonts, for example, Linux.
