Louis Braille School

You may download a variety of free braille fonts from Mathspeak.

We suggest gh Sim Braille One. This font will make braille characters that look like those on the alphabet chart.

Writing braille with a computer keyboard is a little like writing any language that has its own symbols. In the case of a braille font, special braille symbols take the place of some of the keyboard characters.

For instance, the braille number 1 requires two braille cells. It is made by typing #a on the keyboard. The computer keyboard numbers are reserved for other braille symbols.

	number one

The lower case letters on the keyboard will make lower case braille letters. The keyboard chart below shows you what keys may be typed to write braille symbols.

Lessons for capitalization, basic punctuation and numbers are presented elsewhere in our braille resources section.

Lower Case Keys

`

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

0

-

=

Back Space

Tab

q

w

e

r

t

y

u

i

o

p

[

]

\

Caps Lock

a

s

d

f

g

h

j

k

l

;

‘

Enter

Shift

z

x

c

v

b

n

m

,

.

/

Shift

Upper Case Keys

~

!

@

#

$

%

^

&

*

(

)

_

+

Back Space

Caps Lock

:

“

Enter

Shift

<

>

?

Shift