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Kiswahili fonts

Kiswahili

Fonts that hold every Kiswahili letter and the ng’ apostrophe.

Name in the language
Kiswahili
Writing system
Latin
Spelling standard
Standard Kiswahili Latin orthography
Requirements
sw 1.1.0
Fonts
8 fonts checked

Kiswahili is written in the Latin alphabet with the letter combinations ch, dh, gh, kh, ny, sh, th and ng’. A font is listed here when it holds every letter, capital and small, the punctuation of everyday text, and draws ng’ with either apostrophe.

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.

8 fonts
Serif
Kenya Kiingereza Kiswahili Januari Februari Machi Aprili Mei

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Fraunces

Undercase Type, Phaedra Charles, Flavia Zimbardi · OFL-1.1
  • Characters checked
  • Rendering checked
  • Language review pending
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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: Kiswahili profile sw 1.1.0 (Standard Kiswahili 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: Swahili language