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Gĩkũyũ

Fonts that write Gĩkũyũ correctly, including ĩ and ũ in capitals and small letters.

Name in the language
Gĩkũyũ
Writing system
Latin
Spelling standard
Gĩkũyũ Latin orthography
Requirements
ki 1.1.1
Fonts
7 fonts checked

Gĩkũyũ is written in the Latin alphabet with two extra vowels, ĩ and ũ, each carrying a tilde. A font is listed here only when both vowels are in the released files, in capitals and small letters, and when they draw correctly whether they are typed as a single character or as a letter followed by a combining tilde (U+0303), which some keyboards and phones produce.

Every listed font is also checked for the apostrophe in ng’ and for accents that touch, collide or are cut off.

Characters Insert a letter, accent or apostrophe at the cursor.

Specimen text: CLDR 49 (Unicode Common Locale Data Repository): language, country and calendar names. Not yet reviewed by a fluent speaker.

7 fonts
Handwriting
Kenya Gĩthũngũ Gĩgĩkũyũ Mũgaa Mũgetho Kĩhu Mũthatũ Mũgiranjara

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Caveat

Impallari Type · OFL-1.1
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Sans serif
Kenya Gĩthũngũ Gĩgĩkũyũ Mũgaa Mũgetho Kĩhu Mũthatũ Mũgiranjara

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DM Sans

Colophon Foundry · OFL-1.1
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Serif
Kenya Gĩthũngũ Gĩgĩkũyũ Mũgaa Mũgetho Kĩhu Mũthatũ Mũgiranjara

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Fraunces

Undercase Type, Phaedra Charles, Flavia Zimbardi · OFL-1.1
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Monospace
Kenya Gĩthũngũ Gĩgĩkũyũ Mũgaa Mũgetho Kĩhu Mũthatũ Mũgiranjara

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JetBrains Mono

JetBrains, Philipp Nurullin, Konstantin Bulenkov · OFL-1.1
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How these fonts are checked

Every claim on this page comes from the released font files, tested with the same shaping engine browsers use and with no fallback font allowed to fill a gap. Three things are tracked separately:

  • Characters checked: every required letter in capitals and small letters, every accent and the punctuation of everyday text is in every file.
  • Rendering checked: letters typed as one character and as a letter plus combining accent look the same; accents sit on their letters without touching, colliding or being cut off; i and j lose their dot under an accent.
  • Language review: a fluent speaker has read this font in this language and confirmed it. Until then a font shows “Language review pending”.

Requirements: Kikuyu profile ki 1.1.1 (Gĩkũyũ Latin orthography). Checker 1.0.0, last run November 1, 2026.

Sources for the requirements

  • Unicode CLDR 49 locale data (characters, language names, Gregorian calendar) (49.0.0)
  • The Unicode Standard: combining marks and normalization (UAX #15)
  • Unicode: U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE and U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
  • Wikipedia: Kikuyu language
  • Harmonizing the Orthography of Gĩkũyũ and Kĩkamba (Kenyatta University Institutional Repository, deposited 2014)