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Polytonic Greek

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Introduction

This page shows the subset of Greek fonts that support classical (polytonic) Greek writing. Separate pages show modern (monotonic) Greek and Coptic (using the Greek block) fonts.

The fonts listed here don't necessarily support every polytonic Unicode character. Refer to TLG's polytonic font page for specifics on which characters are absent from specific polytonic Greek fonts.

Font Samples (page 1 of 2)

font sample *	font information
	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)
	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)
	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
	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
	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
	CERG Chinese Font    [ show all samples ]  (cerg_chi.ttf from cerg_chi.zip) Note: Also has significant coverage of mathematical characters. Source: Free download from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. Stats: Version 3.01 has 36,701 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Chinese (Fantizi/Traditional Han Ideographs including Extension A), Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek, Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Han Ideographic (default, Chinese/ZHT)
	Chrysanthi Unicode (Chryſanþi Unicode)    [ show all samples ]  (chrysuni.ttf) PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy. Source: Free download from EveryWitchWay's Chrysanthi Unicode page. Stats: Version 3.1 has 4,383 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic), Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Runic, Vietnamese
	Code2000    [ show all samples ]  (code2000.ttf) Source: Download this shareware font ($5) from James Kass's webpage. Stats: Version 1.16 has 61,864 glyphs and 239 kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Baluchi, Kirghiz, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Armenian, Bengali, Braille, Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Chinese (Bopomofo only, including Extended), Cirth, Coptic, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Ethiopic (including supplement and extended blocks), Ewellic, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs including Extension A), Klingon, Korean (Hangul only), Lao, Latin, Limbu, Mongolian, N'Ko, Ogham, Phaistos, Runic, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Tengwar, Thaana, Thai, Tifinagh, Vietnamese, Yi OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Buhid, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic, Hangul, Hangul Jamo, Hebrew, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Mongolian, Myanmar, N'Ko, Tamil, Telugu, Thai
	DejaVu Sans    [ show all samples ]  (DejaVuSans.ttf, DejaVuSans-Bold, DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf, and DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf from dejavu-ttf-version.zip) Note: The "DejaVu Sans Condensed" font is also available. Source: Free download from DejaVu project on SourceForge. Stats: Version 2.10 has 3,932 glyphs and 2,558 kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Persian), Armenian, Braille, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), IPA, Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: default, Arabic, Armenian, Cyrillic (default, Macedonian, Serbian), Greek, Hebrew, Lao, Latin (default, Dinka)
	DejaVu Sans Mono    [ show all samples ]  (DejaVuSansMono.ttf, DejaVuSansMono-Bold, DejaVuSansMono-Oblique.ttf, and DejaVuSansMono-BoldOblique.ttf from dejavu-ttf-version.zip) Source: Free download from DejaVu project on SourceForge. Stats: Version 2.10 has 2,268 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek (including polytonic), Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Cyrillic (default, Serbian)
	DejaVu Serif    [ show all samples ]  (DejaVuSerif.ttf, DejaVuSerif-Bold, DejaVuSerif-Oblique.ttf, and DejaVuSerif-BoldOblique.ttf from dejavu-ttf-version.zip) Note: The "DejaVu Serif Condensed" font is also available. Source: Free download from DejaVu project on SourceForge. Stats: Version 2.10 has 1,843 glyphs and 1,300 kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek (including polytonic), IPA, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: default, Cyrillic (default, Serbian), Greek, Latin
	Everson Mono Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (evermono.ttf) Source: Shareware from Everson Mono. Stats: Version 4.1.3 2003-02-13 has 4,899 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Armenian, Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Hebrew, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Ogham, Runic, Vietnamese
	FMBF Tahoma    [ show all samples ]  (FMBF_Tahoma.ttf[regular] and FMBF_Tahoma_b.ttf [bold] from FMBF_Fonts.zip) Source: The Matenadaran website is no longer active, so the fonts can be downloaded from WAZU.JP Stats: Version 3.05 has 2,115 glyphs and 704 kerning pairs Support: Armenian, Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek (including polytonic), Hebrew, Latin, Thai, Vietnamese
	Free Mono / Free Monospaced    [ show all samples ]  (FreeMono.ttf, FreeMonoBold.ttf, FreeMonoOblique.ttf, and FreeMonoBoldOblique.ttf from freefont-ttf-20060126.tar.gz) Note: Bold and italic styles support fewer characters than the "regular" font. Source: Free download from Savannah. Stats: Version 1.23 has 2,577 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Armenian, Braille, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic), Hebrew, Latin, Runic, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Hebrew, Latin
	Free Serif    [ show all samples ]  (FreeSerif.ttf, FreeSerifBold.ttf, FreeSerifItalic.ttf, and FreeSerifBoldItalic.ttf from freefont-ttf-20060126.tar.gz) Note: Bold and italic styles support fewer characters than the "regular" font. Source: Free download from Savannah. Stats: Version 1.52 has 3,914 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Bengali, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Ethiopic, Greek (including polytonic), Hebrew, IPA, Latin, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Malayalam, Tamil, Thaana, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: default, Bengali, Latin, Malayalam (traditional), Tamil
	FreeSans    [ show all samples ]  (FreeSans.ttf, FreeSansBold.ttf, FreeSansOblique.ttf, and FreeSansBoldOblique.ttf from freefont-ttf-20060126.tar.gz) Note: Bold and oblique styles support fewer characters than the "regular" font. Source: Free download from Savannah. Stats: Version 1.76 has 2,734 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Armenian, Bengali, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Greek (including polytonic), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: default, Armenian, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Latin
	Galatia SIL    [ show all samples ]  (GalSILR20.ttf and GalSILB20.ttf) Source: Free download from SIL International. Stats: Version 2.0 has 709 glyphs and 765 kerning pairs Support: Greek (including polytonic), Latin
	Galilee Unicode Gk    [ show all samples ]  (GalileeU_Gk0_7.ttf) Source: Free download from Rodney Decker. Stats: Version 0.007 2004 has 488 glyphs and 138 kerning pairs Support: Greek (including polytonic); Greek characters also mapped to some Latin codepoints
	Gandhari Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (gur3.844.ttf [regular] and gui3.816.ttf [italic]) Note: Designed for the romanization of Sanskrit and Gandhari (Prakrit) languages. PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy. Source: Free download from Andrew Glass's webpage. Stats: Version 3.844 2005 has 2,062 glyphs and 105 kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek (including polytonic), IPA, Latin, Vietnamese
	Gentium    [ show all samples ]  (GenR102.TTF [regular] and GenI102.TTF [italic] from Gentium102.zip) Source: Free download from SIL International. Stats: Version 1.02 2005 has 1,699 glyphs and 2,857 kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek (including polytonic), IPA, Latin, Vietnamese
	GentiumAlt    [ show all samples ]  (GenAR102.TTF [regular] and GenAI102.TTF [italic] from Gentium102.zip) Note: GentiumAlt has flatter diacritics than Gentium to accommodate stacking diacritics used in languages such as Vietnamese. Source: Free download from SIL International. Stats: Version 1.02 2005 has 1,699 glyphs and 2,857 kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek (including polytonic), IPA, Latin, Vietnamese
	Georgia Greek    [ show all samples ]  (georg___.ttf) Warning: This font is no longer officially being distributed. Source: Free download from ELPENOR's Greek Fonts page. Stats: Version 1.0 has 1,332 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek (including polytonic characters), Latin, Vietnamese
	GFS Bodoni Rg    [ show all samples ]  (GFSBodoni.otf, GFSBodoniBold.otf, GFSBodoniIt.otf, and GFSBodoniBoldIt.otf from GFS_BONDOI_OT.zip) Source: Free download from the Greek Font Society. Stats: Version OTF1.000... has 1,177 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Greek (including polytonic), Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Greek, Latin
	GFS Didot Rg    [ show all samples ]  (GFSDidot.otf, GFSDidotBold.otf, GFSDidotItalic.otf, and GFSDidotBoldItalic.otf from GFS_DIDOT_OT.zip) Source: Free download from the Greek Font Society. Stats: Version OTF1.000... has 1,139 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Greek (including polytonic), Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Greek, Latin
	GFS Neohellenic Rg    [ show all samples ]  (GFSNeohellenic.otf, GFSNeohellenicBold.otf, GFSNeohellenicItalic.otf, and GFSNeohellenicBoldItalic.otf from GFS_NEOHELLENIC_OT.zip) Source: Free download from the Greek Font Society. Stats: Version OTF1.000... has 1,140 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Greek (including polytonic), Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Greek, Latin
	GFS Olga Rg    [ show all samples ]  (GFSOlga.otf from GFS_OLGA.zip) Source: Free download from the Greek Font Society. Stats: Version OTF1.000... has 379 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Greek (including polytonic) OpenType Layout Tables: 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.
• Patrick Rourke has a draft online book on Unicode Polytonic Greek for the World Wide Web.
• The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) research center at the University of California, Irvine details which characters are missing from specific Greek polytonic fonts.
• The Greek Font Archive provides a catalogue of polytonic Unicode fonts.
• Writing system information at Wikipedia and Omniglot.

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