Dr. Shirley's Font List
To suggest improvements, corrections, or additions, please contact Dr. Shirley
Unicode
I wrote this web page at a time when Unicode was being developed, but there were no good fonts or keyboard support for polytonic Greek. Polytonic Greek employs a full set of accents, breathings, and iota-subscripts.
Now there are several fonts which conform to Unicode specifications, and which contain the Greek accented letters as complete characters, rather than as combinations of characters.
So the time has come for me to change from "legacy fonts" such as SPIonic, to the more versatile and universally accepted polytonic Unicode.
If you see a row of eight accented Greek characters on the left which are similar to the ones on the right (not necessarily the same font), then you already have a Unicode polytonic Greek font installed and your computer should be ready to read (but not necessarily to write) polytonic Greek texts.
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Unicode Polytonic Greek fonts
Go here for a page of links to free Unicode font downloads and resources
Legacy fonts
The rest of this page links to resources for the older "legacy fonts"
Although the legacy fonts are much smaller than Unicode ones, and are generally quick and easy to use, they have the drawback of not being universal in scope and use. Some workers still use legacy fonts, so I am continuing to make them available, although I myself no longer use them.
Scholars Press Font archive
Scholar's Press is no longer active, but the fonts which they developed are still available and used widely.
SPIonic is the font I used to use for my Greek classes, and it was extremely easy to use, with nicely-shaped characters. It is in the public domain.
If you would like your own copy of the font you can download it as part of a pack of fonts here (81 KB, includes a keyboard map for SPIonic), or as an individual font SPIonic.ttf, or contact Dr. Shirley
Go here for a Keyboard Map of SPIonic
Go here to see examples of Greek fonts
Go here to see more examples of Greek fonts
Download from this page :
- Greek Font Pack 610 KB zip file, includes SPIonic and a keyboard map for SPIonic
- Silver Mountain 879 KB zip file
- SIL Greek fonts 193 KB zip file
- Hebrew Font Pack 293 KB zip file
- BST Hebrew font 33 KB .ttf file
- Reinhold Kainhofer's Font Pack 218 KB zip file, includes Ugaritic, Meroitic, Persian Cuneiform
Go to this Page to see samples and to download individual fonts and font packs for other languages
Other sites for Downloads and Information :
- Ancient Fonts new site - Sanskrit, Meroitic, Ugaritic, Old Persian Cuneiform
- Fonts for New Testament Greek - information and links for downloads
- Technia Greek font also has a Hebrew font available.
- Linear B and other esoteric fonts by Curtis Clark
- Linguist Software - commercial and expensive, but they do carry fonts for just about every language one can think of.
- ScriptSource - includes legacy and unicode fonts.
- Cyrillic-Mongolian font by Andreas Goretzky
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