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Greek

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Introduction

This page shows fonts for modern Greek. They all support the monotonic style of Greek writing officially adopted in 1982. Separate pages show classical (polytonic) Greek and Coptic (using the Greek block) fonts.

Most fonts that are primarily for Chinese, Japanese, or Korean have been omitted from these samples for brevity.

Font Samples (page 1 of 4)

font sample *	font information
	Aegean    [ show all samples ]  (Aegean.otf) Source: Free download from George Douros's 'Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts' page. Stats: Version 1.01 has 3,578 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cypriot Syllabary, Greek, Latin, Linear B (ideograms and syllabary), Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Phoenician, Ugaritic, Private Use Area (Lycian, Carian, Linear A, Lydian, Anatolian/Luvian Hieroglyphs, Cypro-Minoan, Cretan Hieroglyphs, others) OpenType Layout Tables: Greek, Latin
	Aisa Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (AisaUC.ttf, AisaUCb.ttf, AisaUCi.ttf, and AisaUCbi.ttf) Source: Free download from Lucius Hartmann's homepage. Stats: Version 2.50 has 398 glyphs and 45 kerning pairs Support: Greek (including polytonic)
	Albany    [ show all samples ]  (albanyc.ttf, albanybc.ttf, albanyic.ttf, and albanyzc.ttf) Source: Supplied with StarOffice 7.0, which is free for education and research purposes. Stats: Version 1.00 has 664 glyphs and 908 kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Latin
	Alkaios    [ show all samples ]  (alkaios_.ttf from alkaios.zip) Note: Also covers most characters in the Latin Extended-A block. Source: Free download from Lucius Hartmann's homepage. Stats: Version 13.8.2004 has 704 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Greek (including polytonic), Latin
	ALPHABETUM Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (ALPHABETUM v.9.00.ttf) Note: Excellent font for linguistics and ancient languages. PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy. Source: Shareware ($15) from Juan José Marcos. Stats: Version 9.0 Feb 2007 has 5,515 glyphs and 220 kerning pairs Support: Coptic, Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Gothic, Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Glagolitic, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Linear B (ideograms and syllabary), Ogham, Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Phoenician, Runic, Ugaritic, Private Use Area (Iberic & Celtiberic, additional Old Italic glyphs, Old & Medieval Latin)
	Amerika    [ show all samples ]  (amerika_.ttf from amerika_tt.zip) Note: This is an Armenian look-alike font. Source: Free download of pack 0116 from an Apostrophe archive site. Stats: Version 1.0 2001 has 498 glyphs and 1,123 kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Latin
	Andale Mono    [ show all samples ]  (andalemo.ttf) Source: Supplied with various Microsoft products. Also available from the Smart package of Microsoft's core fonts project. Stats: Version 2.00 has 659 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Latin
	Andale Sans    [ show all samples ]  (ans_____.ttf, ansb____.ttf, ansi____.ttf, and ansbi___.ttf) Source: Supplied with StarOffice 7.0, which is free for education and research purposes. Stats: Version 3.00 - 1999 has 664 glyphs and 162 kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Latin
	Andale Sans UI    [ show all samples ]  (soui.ttf) Source: Supplied with StarOffice 7.0, which is free for education and research purposes. Stats: Version 1.10 has 668 glyphs and 3,400 kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Latin
	Arial    [ show all samples ]  (arial.ttf, arialbd.ttf, arialbi.ttf and ariali.ttf) Source: Supplied with the Windows XP SP2 (service pack 2) update. Older versions were supplied with various Microsoft products and the Smart package of Microsoft's core fonts project. Stats: Version 3.00 has 1,674 glyphs and 909 kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Ajami, Azeri, Balochi, Berber, Brahui, Kazakh, Kirghiz Kurdish, Lahnda, Jawi, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Vietnamese. Warning: Versions prior to 3.00 supported only the Arabic letters used for Arabic and Persian languages. OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, MAR)
	Arial Black    [ show all samples ]  (ariblk.ttf) Note: A earlier version of this font is supplied with StarOffice 7.0. Source: Supplied with various Microsoft products. Also available from the Smart package of Microsoft's core fonts project. Stats: Version 2.35 has 669 glyphs and 496 kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Latin
	Arial Narrow    [ show all samples ]  (arialn.ttf, arialnb.ttf, arialni.ttf, and arialnbi.ttf) Note: A earlier version of this font is supplied with StarOffice 7.0. Source: Supplied with various Microsoft products. Also available at ftp://ftp.carrier.kiev.ua/pub/windows/fonts/unicode/. Stats: Version 2.35 has 658 glyphs and 210 kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Latin
	Arial Unicode MS    [ show all samples ]  (arialuni.ttf) Source: Comes with Microsoft's Office 2000, FrontPage 2000, Office XP and Publisher 2002. Stats: Version 1.00 has 50,377 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Balochi, Persian, Shahmukhi, Urdu), Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs), Kannada, Korean (Hangul only), Latin, Tamil, Thai, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, Farsi, Urdu), Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic (default, Japanese, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional), Kana (default, Japanese), Kannada, Korean, Tamil
	Aristarcoj    [ show all samples ]  (Aristarcoj.ttf) Source: Download this "DonationWare" font from Russell Cottrell. Stats: Version 1.00 25 Dec 2002 has 377 glyphs and 713 kerning pairs Support: Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters); Greek characters also mapped to Latin codepoints
	Athena Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (athena_u.TTF) Note: See also New Athena Unicode font. Source: Free download from the University College London. Stats: Version 1.00 15-11-97 has 849 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Greek (including polytonic), Latin
	AttikaU    [ show all samples ]  (AttikaUbeta5.otf) Source: Free download from the Kadmos / Bosporos page on GreekKeys. Stats: Version "0.500 PS 000.050 hotconv 1.0.38" has 1,134 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Latin
	Berling Antiqua    [ show all samples ]  (berling.ttf, berlingb.ttf, berlingi.ttf, berlingz.ttf) Source: Part of the free Microsoft Reader product. Stats: Version 1.10 has 842 glyphs and 133 kerning pairs Support: Greek, IPA, Latin
	Bitstream Cyberbase    [ show all samples ]  (Cyberbas.ttf from Cyberbase.zip) Note: This is a subset of Cyberbit. It omits the Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters. Source: Free download available from this FTP site. Stats: Version beta 1.0 has 1,249 glyphs and 935 kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic only), Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, Arabic)
	Bitstream Cyberbit    [ show all samples ]  (Cyberbit.ttf from Cyberbit.zip) Note: The Greek range of this font is visually identical to "Bitstream Cyberbase". Source: Free download available from this FTP site. Stats: Version beta 2.0 has 29,934 glyphs and 935 kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic only), Chinese (Bopomofo only), Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Hebrew, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs), Korean (Hangul only), Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, Arabic)
	Book Antiqua    [ show all samples ]  (bkant.ttf, antquab.ttf, antquai.ttf, and antquabi.ttf) Source: Supplied with various Microsoft products. Stats: Version 2.35 has 669 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Latin
	Bookman Old Style    [ show all samples ]  (bookos.ttf, bookosb.ttf, bookosi.ttf, bookosbi.ttf) Source: Supplied with various Microsoft products. Also available at ftp://ftp.carrier.kiev.ua/pub/windows/fonts/unicode/. Stats: Version 2.35 has 669 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Latin
	BosporosU    [ show all samples ]  (BosporosUbeta2.otf) Source: Free download from the Kadmos / Bosporos page on GreekKeys. Stats: Version "0.200 PS 000.020 hotconv 1.0.38" has 1,134 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Latin
	BPG Glaho Arial V5 Big    [ show all samples ]  (BPG_Glaho_Arial_V5_big.ttf) Note: There is also a BPG-specific font called "Arial Unicode MS" (BPG_Glaho_Arial_Unicode_MS_V5.ttf) with similar Unicode range support as BPG Glaho Arial V5 Big. Source: Free download from either the shavlego file area or the bpgfonts file area. Stats: Version 3.00 has 1,757 glyphs and 1,172 kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Ajami, Azeri, Balochi, Berber, Brahui, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Kirghiz Kurdish, Lahnda, Jawi, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Georgian (Mkhedruli), Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (...), Latin
	BPG Nino Khutsuri U    [ show all samples ]  (BPG-Nino-U.TTF in BPG-Nino-U.zip) A detailed description of this font is also available. Source: Free download from either the shavlego file area or the bpgfonts file area. Stats: Version 2.35 has 375 glyphs and 452 kerning pairs Support: Georgian (Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri instead of Mkhedruli), Greek, Latin
	BPG Paata Khutsuri U    [ show all samples ]  (BPG-Paata-Khutsuri-U.ttf in BPG-Paata-Khutsuri.zip) A detailed description is also available for this font. Source: Free download from the bpgfonts file area. Stats: Version 2.4 has 378 glyphs and 287 kerning pairs Support: Georgian (Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri instead of Mkhedruli), Greek, Latin
	Cardo    [ show all samples ]  (Cardo98s.ttf from cardo98.zip) Note: Cardo is "designed for the needs of classicists, Biblical scholars, medievalists, and linguists". PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy. Source: Free download from the Fonts for Scholars site. Stats: Version .98 has 2,882 glyphs and 216 kerning pairs Support: Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters plus ancient Greek numbers and musical notation), Hebrew, IPA, Latin, Old Italic, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Greek, Hebrew, Latin
	Carl Barks Script    [ show all samples ]  (CarlBarksScript.ttf from CarlBarksScript2.zip) Source: Free download from D.O.N.A.L.D. Stats: Version 29.11.1998 has 455 glyphs and 3,720 kerning pairs Support: Greek, Latin
	Century    [ show all samples ]  (century.ttf) Source: Supplied with various Microsoft products. Stats: Version 1.20 has 670 glyphs and 195 kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Latin
	Century Gothic    [ show all samples ]  (gothic.ttf, gothicb.ttf, gothici.ttf, gothicbi.ttf) Source: Supplied with various Microsoft products. Stats: Version 2.35 has 666 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Latin
	Century Schoolbook    [ show all samples ]  (censcbk.ttf, schlbkb.ttf, schlbki.ttf, schlbkbi.ttf) Source: Supplied with various Microsoft products. Stats: Version 2.35 has 669 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Latin

 

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Related Links

• The Unicode 5.0 implementations of Greek and Coptic are described in chapter 7 (European Alphabetic Scripts) of The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0.
• Names, images, properties and additional background/non-technical information about related Unicode blocks and their characters can be found on decodeunicode's Greek and Greek Extended pages (in English and German/Deutsch).
• Nick Nicholas discusses Greek and Coptic Unicode issues on his Greek page.
• Writing system information at Wikipedia and Omniglot.

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