http://www.linotype.com/macfonts?urlrewrite=macfonts&gclid=CPGwsea9h4oCFRLIbgodAxyaRw
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ipa/ipafonts.html
SIL International has produced several font sets over the years that allow for the transcription of linguistic data using the International Phonetic Alphabet. These fonts are:
Unicode-encoded fonts
Charis SIL
Doulos SIL
Gentium
Legacy fonts
SIL IPA93 2.0
SIL IPA 1.2
In general, SIL recommends the use of the Unicode-encoded fonts. The older, “legacy” fonts were designed to work with text in a custom 8-bit encoding, not a recognized character encoding standard, and required changing fonts when switching between normal text and IPA transcription. With Unicode-encoded fonts, the user can produce both normal text and IPA transcription with a single font. In addition, Unicode provides cross-platform compatibility. There were built-in incompatibilities between Windows and Mac versions of the legacy fonts, whereas Unicode has been adopted as a standard for Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. Using Unicode fonts:
Facilitates sharing your data files and archiving your data for future generations.
Allows compatibility with updated computer Operating Systems and SIL software.
Having said that, there are certain special cases that may warrant the use of the legacy fonts:
You are using a legacy application which does not support the use of Unicode or does not support smart-font capabilities for proper placement of diacritics.
You want to produce a near-publication quality document with Doulos, but need the bold, italic, and bold-italic typefaces.
You want to produce a near-publication quality document with Sophia or Manuscript.
Many Universities and Journals continue to require the use of SIL IPA93 fonts. Until that policy is changed you may need to use the SIL IPA93 fonts.
Below, we provide a brief discussion of the issues related to the use of each of the above-mentioned fonts. The best option for publication-quality typesetting is Charis SIL.
Font Home Pages
Unicode-encoded Fonts
Charis SIL Home Page — Charis SIL is a Unicode-encoded serif font. Besides having a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system, it also contains the entire inventory of the International Phonetic Alphabet. The latest version also contains the newly-adopted symbol for the labiodental flap. It includes the characters in the SIL Private Use Area. It has built-in “smart-font” capabilities, so diacritics are properly placed. It contains all four typefaces (regular, bold, italic, and bold-italic). This is the font that SIL recommends using for publication-quality typesetting. SIL plans to continue developing Charis SIL in the future.
Doulos SIL Home Page — Doulos SIL is a Unicode-encoded serif font similar to Times New Roman. Besides having a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system, it also contains the entire inventory of the International Phonetic Alphabet. The latest version also contains the newly-adopted symbol for the labiodental flap. It includes the characters in the SIL Private Use Area. It has built-in “smart-font” capabilities, so diacritics are properly placed. At present, it only contains the regular typeface; bold, italic, and bold-italic are not available. SIL plans to continue developing Doulos SIL in the future, for the regular typeface only.
Gentium Home Page — Gentium is a Unicode-encoded font designed by SIL member Victor Gaultney. At the moment, it includes regular and italic typefaces, but not bold or bold-italic. It supports both ancient and modern Greek. At present, it does not include the characters in the SIL Private Use Area. It does not have built-in “smart-font” capabilities, so diacritics may not be properly placed. SIL plans to continue developing Gentium in the future.
The Microsoft font Arial Unicode MS is a Unicode-enabled font that is very similar to Sophia. It includes the International Phonetic Alphabet characters. It does not, however, include bold, italic, or bold-italic typefaces, nor does it have built-in “smart-font” capabilities, so diacritics may not be properly placed.
Legacy Fonts
SIL IPA93 2.0 Home Page — SIL IPA93 (sometimes referred to as the SIL IPA Encore fonts) encodes the version of the International Phonetic Alphabet adopted in 1993 (and revised slightly in 1996). The font set includes three type faces: Doulos (similar to Times New Roman), Sophia (similar to Univers), and Manuscript (monospace). These fonts include regular, bold, italic, and bold-italic typefaces, allowing for near-publication quality typesetting. SIL has not produced a Unicode-encoded version of Sophia or Manuscript (but see “Doulos SIL” above). There are no plans for further development of the SIL IPA93 font set.
SIL IPA 1.2 Home Page — SIL IPA encodes the version of the International Phonetic Alphabet adopted at the 1989 Kiel convention. The font set includes three type faces: Doulos (similar to Times New Roman), Sophia (similar to Univers), and Manuscript (monospace). These fonts do not include bold, italic, or bold-italic typefaces. In addition, this version of the IPA has been superceded by a revision done in 1993. SIL no longer recommends the use of this font set. There are no plans for further development of the SIL IPA font set.
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=IPAhome
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/phonetic.html
http://www.unc.edu/~jlsmith/ipa-fonts.html