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I’m working on a new T-shirt idea as a Christmas present for a friend–we’ll see if I can pull it off well enough to try to sell to the general public–and was looking for cool Cyrillic fonts. I thought my discoveries might be useful. Dafont has some awesome fonts in Russian Orthodox Church style, propaganda poster fonts and a couple of fonts that looks like they came from old certificates. The only problem is that they don’t work when you set your keyboard to the Cyrillic alphabet. So either have to figure out which Latin keys get you which Cyrillic letters or open up the “Insert Special Characters” dialogue and work from that.

Not too hard to find funky Russian fonts, but a real surprise was the official Kazakh fonts site of the Committee on Languages of the Ministry of Information and Culture. Nice, free fonts that do use the Cyrillic keyboard in a variety of styles. So you can use these for Kazakh or Russian or any other Cyrillic language. Now all I need is a font that makes Cyrillic letters look like Arabic, the kind Eastern restaurants and souvenir stores in Kazakhstan often use, and I will be home free.