Editing International Phonetic Alphabet (section)

==== 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}}