Baybayin Fonts
A Note On Baybayin Styles and Names
Although there are many forms of the baybayin, it must be remembered that they are not unique to the languages that share their names. That is to say, the baybayin, like our modern alphabet, can be written or printed in many ways and each style can be used to write in any language. Just as italic printing is not only for Italian, a so-called Tagalog baybayin is not just for Tagalog or a supposed Ilokano script only for Ilokano etc.
The baybayin is a single writing system. The confusion between the forms of the baybayin and various Filipino languages may be due to historical circumstances or just sloppy reporting on the part of some historians. For example, the typeface chosen by Father Francisco Lopez in 1620 to print the Ilokano version of the Doctrina Christiana looks different to the one used in the Tagalog version of 1593 but they are both just two styles of the one baybayin. However, the Lopez typeface has since come to be mistaken in some circles as the “Ilokano alphabet” simply because it was used most notably in an Ilokano book.
Other forms of the baybayin such as Bikol and Bisaya have similar histories. Their origins can be traced only as far back as certain modern printed documents of the Spanish era that were written in their respective languages – their particular styles originating in the artistry of the authors. – PAUL MORROW
PAUL MORROW’s Fonts
Tagalog Doctrina 1593 ©
Tagalog Stylized © (1992)
Baybayin Lopez © (1620)
Bisaya Hervás © (1787)
Bikol Mintz © (1835)
NORDENX’s Modern Baybayin Fonts
CHRISTIAN CABUAY’s Baybayin Brush Font
DAVID LAZARO’s Baybayin Putula Font
KEVIN ARDINEZ’s Baybayin Modern Fonts
ALCHELLE ESCOTON’s Baybayin Modern Fonts
Makulit Modern Baybayin Font
Seryoso Modern Baybayin Font
DAHN JACOB’s Modern Baybayin Fonts
BAYBAYIN BUHAYIN’s's Modern Baybayin Fonts
Are you seeing boxes or squares instead of the Baybayin Script? You may need to download and install the Baybayin Modern Font (BMF) Unicode Mono.
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doon po sa amin
August 5, 2011 @ 10:11 amᜑᜒᜎ᜔ᜎᜓ, ᜎᜒᜃᜒ ᜃᜓ ‘ᜆᜓ! ᜃᜓᜋᜓᜐ᜔ᜆ? ᜑᜉ᜔ᜉ᜔ᜌ᜔ ᜏᜒᜁᜃᜒᜈ᜔ᜇ᜔?
doon po sa amin
August 5, 2011 @ 10:13 amhello, like ko ‘to! kumusta? happy weekend!
yown ang sabi ko. hehe, mahirap atang matutunan yang baybayin, parang maarte ang script, ahaha.