Recommended Fonts

Because PIE uses special characters known as Unicode combining characters, it requires an advanced font to render PIE text nicely.

How to Change PIE's Font Setting

By default, PIE uses Cambria for Windows Vista and higher, and Cherry PIE (shipped with PIE) for Linux and lower versions of Windows. These fonts are guaranteed to work well. However, you can specify your own fonts in PIE's Options page (right-click the "pie" icon

and click "Options").

Fonts that Work Well on All Platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X)

Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) produces four Latin fonts that work well with PIE on all platforms. Better yet, they have a free license which means you can use them for both non-commercial and commercial purposes.

• Andika (download here)

• Charis SIL (download here)

• Doulos SIL (download here)

• Gentium Plus (download here)

PIE ships with a font called Cherry PIE which is modified from Charis SIL and provides clearer shape for diacritics at small font sizes.

• Cherry PIE (ships with PIE; download here)

Fonts that Work Well on Windows

Highly recommended

• Calibri (evolved to be PIE-compatible as of Windows 10)

• Cambria (comes with Windows Vista or higher)

• Cherry PIE (ships with PIE; download here)

• Linux Biolinum G (has a free licence; download here)

• Linux Libertine G (has a free license; download here)

• DejaVu Sans (has a free license; download here)

• Andika (download here)

• Charis SIL (download here)

• Doulos SIL (download here)

• Gentium Plus (download here)

Just so so

• Segoe UI (comes with Windows Vista or higher)

• Microsoft Sans Serif (comes with Windows 2000 or higher)

• Tahoma (comes with Windows 95 or higher)

• Times New Roman (comes with Windows 95 or higher)

• MS Serif (comes with Windows 95 or higher)

• MS Sans Serif (comes with Windows 95 or higher)

• Arial (comes with Windows 95 or higher)

Fonts that Work Well on Mac OS X

• Cherry PIE (ships with PIE; download here)

• Andika (download here)

• Charis SIL (download here)

• Doulos SIL (download here)

• Gentium Plus (download here)

• Lucida Grande (comes with Mac OS X)

Fonts that Work Well on Linux

• Cherry PIE (ships with PIE; download here)

• Andika (download here)

• Charis SIL (download here)

• Doulos SIL (download here)

• Gentium Plus (download here)