On macOS, using the Bulgarian keyboard with the Academico font, the letter:
я
is rendered serif instead of sans serif. See screenshot.
This makes the font unusable for me, a real problem, since I work with the director of a Bulgarian women’s choir. I’ve been using a subsitute, less elegant font in the meantime.
Is there any hope this can be fixed?
David
Hello David,
the screenshot you posted does not show Academico at all. Academico is a serif font. You must be using something different as Default Text Font.
The OS will use a ‘fallback’ font for glyphs that are not included. Interestingly, it looks the я is the only character from Academico.
Most, but not all, of the macOS bundled fonts will have Cyrillic letters; though whether any of them are suitable for lyrics is a different matter. Baskerville might work, though ist not very legible at small sizes. Palatino is commonly used, though it can disrupt the note spacing.
Publico Text, which is a MacOS supplemental font that you can download from FontBook, would work very well.
If you have something like Minion Pro, I’d suggest using that. The Caption Condensed style works very well for lyrics.
Other contenders might be Adobe Text Pro. Or some of the bundled MS Office fonts, which include a version of Century SchoolBook with Cyrillics.
I did toy with the idea of including Cyrillics with Nepomuk, but I know nothing about how it’s supposed to look or work.
Edwin, the free Century-Schoolbook-like font coming with MuseScore might be another alternative. It includes Cyrillic characters as well.
Thanks, everyone. This makes more sense now. I do have Academico selected as the font when I start typing in a text box with the Bulgarian keyboard, which is in the Cyrillic alphabet. It seems that Academico has some sort of problem with Cyrillic, except for maybe that one character! 
I have several other fonts that can produce Cyrillic, both serif and sans-serif (e.g., DejaVu, Gentium, Lucinda Grande), but thank you all for the additional suggestions, which I will try out, as I am still looking for something more elegant in each category.
Academico currently supports Latin script only.
Generally any font with “Pro” in the name means it has support for a broader range of characters.
I love Crimson Pro, Minion Pro, and Brill.
Ah, thank you for this info, wherever you found it. “Currently” sounds more optimistic than I’m accustomed to, but we shall see.
Thank you for these suggestions. I tried the first two (don’t have Brill), and they indeed look much better. Certainly different than Lucida (nee “Lucinda”) Grande (not to be confused with Lucinda Williams).
or Ariana (nee “Arial”) Grande.
The Font Book utility on Mac gives info on included scripts and supported languages.
(For Academico it reports Latin and Tagalog, of all things, though I did not find which glyph(s) might belong to the latter script.)
Tagalog is the main language of the Philippines, written in the Latin script. Its only diacritic is the ñ, borrowed from Spanish.
(Oh – When I saw “Tagalog” I thought it meant the Baybayin script at U+1700. Thanks.)
Another helpful response. I just looked in FontBook, and while Academico supports an amazing variety of languages, a large percentage of which I’ve never heard of, it just uses the Latin script, no Cyrillic (so, no Russian, and no Bulgarian and Macedonian— the two languages I use most often). Thanks again for your help.
