Editing International Phonetic Alphabet (section)

=== Typefaces ===
[[File:IPA font sample (SIL, Brill, Noto, DejaVu, Calibri).svg|thumb|The sequence {{IPA|⟨˨˦˧꜒꜔꜓k͜𝼄a͎̽᷅ꟸ⟩|cat=no}} in the fonts Gentium Book Plus, Andika, Brill, Noto Serif, DejaVu Sans and Calibri. All but DejaVu align diacritics well. Asterisks are characters not supported by that font. In Noto and DejaVu, the red tone letters do not link properly, and in DejaVu the stacked diacritics overstrike each other. This is a test sequence: Noto and Calibri support most IPA adequately.]]
Many typefaces have support for IPA characters, but good diacritic rendering remains rare.<ref name="Es gilt das gesprochene Wort: Schriftarten für IPA-Transkriptionen">{{cite web |title=Es gilt das gesprochene Wort: Schriftarten für IPA-Transkriptionen |date=16 March 2014 |url=https://www.isoglosse.de/2014/03/schriftarten-ipa-transkriptionen/ |access-date=2022-08-18 |language=de |archive-date=9 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220809201424/https://www.isoglosse.de/2014/03/schriftarten-ipa-transkriptionen/ |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Web browser]]s generally do not need any configuration to display IPA characters, provided that a typeface capable of doing so is available to the operating system.

==== Free fonts ====
Typefaces that provide full IPA<!--e.g. Modifier Tone Letters such as tone-sandhi U+A712--> and nearly full extIPA support, including properly rendering the diacritics,<!--e.g. Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement characters such as U+1DC5--> include [[Gentium]] Plus, [[Charis SIL]], [[Doulos SIL]], and [[Andika (font)|Andika]] developed by [[SIL International]].<!--SIL fonts seem to be the only ones with complete IPA support. --> Indeed, the IPA chose Doulos to publish their chart in Unicode format.
In addition to the level of support found in commercial and system fonts, these fonts support the full range of old-style (pre-Kiel) staveless tone letters, through a [[character variant]] option that suppresses the stave of the Chao tone letters. They also have an option to maintain the {{IPA|[a]}} ~ {{IPA|[ɑ]}} vowel distinction in italics. The only notable gaps are with the extIPA: the combining parentheses, which enclose diacritics, are not supported, nor is the enclosing circle that marks unidentified sounds, and which Unicode considers to be a [[List of proofreader's marks|copy-edit mark]] and thus not eligible for Unicode support.

The basic Latin [[Noto fonts]] commissioned by [[Google]] also have significant IPA support, including diacritic placement, only failing with the more obscure IPA and extIPA characters and superscripts of the [[Latin Extended-F]] and [[Latin Extended-G]] blocks. The extIPA parentheses are included, but they do not enclose diacritics as they are supposed to.

[[DejaVu]] is the second free Unicode font chosen by the IPA to publish their chart. It was last updated in 2016 and so does not support the Latin F or G blocks. Stacked diacritics tend to overstrike each other.

{{as of|2018}}, the IPA was developing their own font, ''unitipa'', based on [[TIPA (software)|TIPA]].<ref>Natalie Udomkesmalee (2018) [https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/IPAcharts/IPA_hist/IPA_hist_2018.html Historical charts of the International Phonetic Alphabet], endnote.</ref>{{update needed|date=May 2025}}

==== Proprietary system fonts ====
[[Calibri]],<!--Good diacritic placement of Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement, but incomplete tone support.--> the former default font of [[Microsoft Office]], has nearly complete IPA support with good diacritic rendering, though it is not as complete as some free fonts (see image at right). Other widespread Microsoft fonts, such as [[Arial]] and [[Times New Roman]], have poor support.

The Apple system fonts [[Geneva (typeface)|Geneva]], [[Lucida Grande]] and [[Hiragino]] (certain weights) have only basic IPA support.

==== Notable commercial fonts ====
<!--A font listed here should support at least diacritics and tone letters as well as Noto or Calibri. Minion 3 does not.-->
[[Brill Publishers#Brill Typeface|Brill]]<!--Comparable support to Calibri.--> has complete IPA and extIPA coverage of characters added to Unicode by 2020, with good diacritic and tone-letter support. It is a commercial font but is freely available for non-commercial use.<ref name="Brill Typeface">{{cite web |title=Brill Typeface |url=https://brill.com/page/1228?language=en%20Brill%20Typeface |access-date=2022-08-18 |language=en |archive-date=18 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220818094822/https://brill.com/page/1228?language=en%20Brill%20Typeface |url-status=live}}</ref>