Alan Wood's Unicode Resources

Great Unicode jump page. Has a page showing all fonts that support the various Unicode ranges. Check, for example, his Shavian Unicode sub-page. Unicode font utilities. Some font downloads, including the Unicode font MPH Damase (2005, Mark Williamson). [Google]

Andy Callaway

Ozzie designer in 2001 of fonts for the Shavian alphabet: Europa and ShawScript. Downloads do not work. [Google]

DeMeyere Design Incorporated
[Ross DeMeyere]

Ross DeMeyere's handwriting font. There are free fonts for Shavian called Androcles and Ghoti. [Google]

Ethan Lamoreaux

Ethan Lamoreaux's page on the Shavian alphabet contains two Shavian fonts he made in 2003: esl_gothic_shavian (the Shavian characters are encoded where the Latin characters would normally go) and esl_gothic_unicode (the Shavian characters are located at both the Private Use area, starting at U+E700, and also in the Shavian area in plane 1 (surrogates) starting at U+10450). [Google]

Joseph Spicer

Owensville and/or Vincennes, IN-based art student (b. 1985) and designer of the Courier-like Shavian font Shaw Mono (2004), Bee Skep (2004, for Deseret), Seftos Nandor (2004, for an artificial language called Lower Geldorian), Sëftos Parathenia (2005, also in the Seftos script), this decorative serif (2006, experimental), Alberne Handlung (2007, a narrow all-caps latin and Cyrillic face), Swartsbok> (2007, a nice gothic font), Lumaro (2007, in the style of Times-Roman), Duck Hunt (2004, fat display face, based on the lettering of the title of the game), Anquietas (2004, "the Ancient alphabet from Stargate"), Gothic Book (2005), and Dadh Ath (2004, containing the Ath characters used to write Baronh created by Morioka Hiroyuki and used in Sekai no Monshou). Spicer now lives in Terre Haute, IN. Another web page. [Google]

Lionel Ghoti

Designer of the Shavian font Lionspaw (1999). [Google]

Mark Williamson

Designer of a public domain Unicode font in 2005 called MPH 2B Damase. It can be found here. Created by Mark Williamson, it covers Armenian, Cherokee, Coptic (Bohairic subset), Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Deseret, Georgian (Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri but no Mkhedruli), Glagolitic, Gothic, Greek (including Coptic characters), Hebrew, Latin, Limbu, Linear B (partial coverage of ideograms and syllabary), Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Osmanya, Phoenician, Shavian, Syloti Nagri (no conjuncts), Tai Le (no combining tone marks), Thaana, Tifinagh, Ugaritic, Vietnamese. See also here. The font is used by the popular Debian Linux software. Mark Williamson also designed a free fonts for Osmanya, Ugaritic and Shavian called Andagii (2003). His Penuturesu covers Linear B. Alternate URL. See also here. Old URL. [Google]

Phillip Driscoll

Philip Driscoll's free fonts for the Shavian alphabet: Shaw Britannia, ShawCurly, ShawRoman No1, Shaw Sans No1, Shaw Sans No2, Shaw Sans No3. [Google]

Quickscript

Kingsley Read, the principal designer of the Shavian Alphabet, subsequently devised two more alphabets. Quickscript was largely based on Shavian, whereas Readspel was based on the Roman alphabet. Quickscript is a cursive form of the Shavian alphabet. A free Quickscript font is at this site. [Google]

Shavian

"The Shavian alphabet is named after George Bernard Shaw and was devised by Kingsley Read. Shaw saw use of the Latin alphabet for writing English as a great waste of time, energy and paper, so in his will he stipulated that a competition should be held to create a new writing system for English and made provision for a prize of £500. The competition took place in 1958 and Kingsley Read's system was chosen as the winner out of the 467 entries. " The page by Simon Ager has links to Shavian fonts. [Google]

Shavian

From Essex University, Alan M. Stanier's metafont for Shavian. From Alan's readme: "The Shavian "Proposed British Alphabet" was devised by Kingsley Reed and was the winning entry in a competition financed by a trust set up under George Bernard Shaw's will. The aim was to find an alphabet able to write English without indicating single sounds by groups of letters or by diacritical marks." [Google]

Shavian & Unicode

Check the Shavian Unicode chart. [Google]

Shaw Alphabet Links

Bob Richmond lists web sites with Shavian fonts (Shaw alphabet fonts). His intro explains why the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (d. 1950) wanted to create a new alphabet for English and how his trustees held a design contest, which resulted in the adoption of a design by Kingsley Read, a 72-year-old typographer. [Google]

Shawalphabet.com

Paul Gershon Vandenbrink's pages. He proposes a revised version of the Shavian alphabet, by adding a set of auxiliary vowel markers. Glottal stops are taken care of by a proposed vowel capitalization. No new fonts (yet), but there is a biography of George Bernard Shaw, and a history of the Shavian alphabet. [Google]

The Shaw Alphabet

Shaw's 50-character non-Roman phonemic alphabet explained. Has a free font, LionsPaw (1999, by Lionel Ghoti, truetype, download not functional). [Google]

Thomas Thurman

Designer at Open Font library of Riordon Fancy (2008, based upon the lovely unsteady hand of ten-year old Riordon Turner) and Leoque (2008, handwritten Shavian). Dafont link. Home page. Another URL. Yet another URL. [Google]