Where can I find a list of supported fonts in Bulgarian, along with examples

Question

I am using pdflatex to write the rules of a simple game. The game is in Bulgarian. Here is the relevant part of the preamble:

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,twoside,openany]{article}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[bulgarian]{babel}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}

It works nice. Now I would want to use a more artistic font. This is the best I have been able to google ,and it does not match what I am looking for.

I need a list of supported fonts, plus short examples of each font, so I can choose a font and apply it to my document. Also a short instruction on how to apply it.

Answer 1

There's a list of available T2A fonts with Cyrillic glyphs here. You can test them and choose the one you like best. Here's an example.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{droid} % <- one of the fonts with T2A encoding

\begin{document}
\noindent А а   Б б     В в     Г г     Д д     Е е     Ж ж     З з     И и     Й й\\
К к     Л л     М м     Н н     О о     П п     Р р     С с     Т т     У у\\
Ф ф     Х х     Ц ц     Ч ч     Ш ш     Щ щ     Ъ ъ     Ь ь     Ю ю     Я я
\end{document}

Answer 2

Here is a complementary list of fonts that can be used with pdfLaTeX/XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX, that are not mentioned in the above link:

Sans serif fonts: Cabin, Linux Biolinum, MyriadPro.

Serif fonts: Heuristica and Erewhon (based on Adobe Utopia), ebgaramond, Xcharter (based on Bitstream Charter), Linux Libertine, MinionPro.

All these font are available in Opentype format (Minion Pro and Myriad Pro come with Adobe Reader) and can be very easily used for text with Xe/LuaLaTeX and fontspec.

Among theses fonts, only Heuristica, Erewhon, MinionPronand MyriadPro can be used with pdfLaTeX for cyrillic glyphs.

Edit: The above-mentioned link now also points to Heuristica and Erewhon.

A demo with Heuristica and Erewhon (I couldn't make my old version of MinionPro work, although the relevant.fd files exist):

    \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
    %\usepackage{heuristica} % <- one of the fonts with T2A encoding
    \parindent = 0pt

    \begin{document}
    \fontfamily{Heuristica-TOsF}\fontencoding{T1}\selectfont
    \textbf{Heuristica: }
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9\\
    \fontencoding{T2A}\selectfont
    \noindent А а Б б В в Г г Д д Е е Ж ж З з И и Й й\\
    К к Л л М м Н н О о П п Р р С с Т т У у\\
    Ф ф Х х Ц ц Ч ч Ш ш Щ щ Ъ ъ Ь ь Ю ю Я я\\[3ex]
    {\itshape А а Б б В в Г г Д д Е е Ж ж З з И и Й й\\
    К к Л л М м Н н О о П п Р р С с Т т У у\\
    Ф ф Х х Ц ц Ч ч Ш ш Щ щ Ъ ъ Ь ь Ю ю Я я\\}

    \vskip 1cm
    \fontfamily{erewhon-TOsF}\fontencoding{T1}\selectfont
    \textbf{Erewhon: }0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9\\
    \fontencoding{T2A}\selectfont
    \noindent А а Б б В в Г г Д д Е е Ж ж З з И и Й й\\
    К к Л л М м Н н О о П п Р р С с Т т У у\\
    Ф ф Х х Ц ц Ч ч Ш ш Щ щ Ъ ъ Ь ь Ю ю Я я\\[3ex]
    {\itshape А а Б б В в Г г Д д Е е Ж ж З з И и Й й\\
    К к Л л М м Н н О о П п Р р С с Т т У у\\
    Ф ф Х х Ц ц Ч ч Ш ш Щ щ Ъ ъ Ь ь Ю ю Я я\\}

    \end{document}