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Coptic subset of the Greek Unicode block

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Introduction

If you want to use the Unicode 4.1 Coptic block, go to my Coptic fonts page instead.

Greek and Coptic were "disunified" with Unicode version 4.1. Coptic is now considered a separate script from Greek and is defined in the Coptic block (U+2C80 - U+2CFF) with a small section (U+03E2 - U+03EF) of the Greek block retained.

This page shows legacy fonts that support Coptic using only the Greek Unicode block (U+0370 - U+03FF). Additional pages show modern (monotonic) Greek and classical (polytonic) Greek fonts.

Very few Greek fonts contain the letters specific to Coptic. Most of these fonts use a different style for the Coptic-specific letters than for the letters used by both Greek and Coptic, giving Coptic text an incongruent look. Only two fonts here (GR Uncial and Unicopt) use the uncial style that is common for Coptic text.

The Coptic alphabet is a historical adaptation of the Greek alphabet with additional letters based on Egyptian Demotic script. The alphabet came into general use in the 4th century CE. It is employed primarily to write Coptic, which is now used only as a liturgical language (by Coptic Christians).

Font Samples

font sample *	font information
	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
	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)
	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)
	Enigmatic Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (EnigmaU_2.TTF) Source: Free download from Darren Rigby's "Objets Dart" site. Stats: Version 2.0 has 1,096 glyphs and 2 kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including Coptic characters), IPA, 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
	GR Uncial    [ show all samples ]  (uncialCL.ttf) Style: A generalized 6th century uncial similar to that of the Codex Claromontanus. Note: Additional versions of this font are available. The GR Uncial N version has transparent (invisible) diacritics. The GR Uncial X version has the Coptic sampi and Coptic Akhmimic khei mapped to Private Use Area codepoints. Source: Comes with the registered version ($50) of the Antioch classical language utility. (Registration covers both Antioch version 1 & 2.) You can also purchase this font separately ($20) by contacting Ralph Hancock. Support: Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Latin
	Hindsight Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (HindUnic.ttf and HindUnIt.ttf) Source: Free download from the History/Hindsight page of Darren Rigby's "Objets Dart" site. Stats: Version 1.00 January 2001 has 2,894 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Hebrew, IPA, Latin, Vietnamese
	KadmosU    [ show all samples ]  (KadmosUbeta3.otf) Source: Free download from the Kadmos / Bosporos page on GreekKeys. Stats: Version "0.301 PS 000.030 hotconv 1.0.38" has 1,134 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Latin
	LeedsUni    [ show all samples ]  (leedsuni.ttf) Source: Free download from Alec McAllister's home page. Stats: Version 001.000 has 2,343 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), IPA, Latin (including many extended/additional letters and diacritics), Runic, Vietnamese, Private Use Area (Medieval Latin)
	Lucida Bright    [ show all samples ]  (LucidaBrightRegular.ttf, LucidaBrightDemiBold.ttf, LucidaBrightDemiItalic.ttf, LucidaBrightItalic.ttf, and may be others depending on the source) Note: The LBRITE.TTF version of this font supports Latin only. Source: Provided with various products including Sun's free Java Software Development Kit version 1.4.2. Stats: Version 1.10 JAVA has 1,402 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including Coptic characters), Latin
	Lucida Sans    [ show all samples ]  (LucidaSansRegular.ttf, LucidaSansDemiBold.ttf, and may be others depending on the source) Note: The LSANS.TTF version of this font supports Latin only. Source: Provided with various products including Sun's free Java Software Development Kit version 1.4.2. Stats: Version 1.20 has 2,929 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Greek (including Coptic characters), Hebrew, IPA, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	Lucida Sans Typewriter    [ show all samples ]  (LucidaTypewriterRegular.ttf, LucidaTypewriterBold.ttf, and may be others depending on the source) Note: The LTYPE.TTF version of this font supports Latin only. Source: Provided with various products including Sun's free Java Software Development Kit version 1.4.2. Stats: Version 1.10 JAVA has 1,376 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including Coptic characters), Hebrew, Latin
	Mediolanum    [ show all samples ]  (Medio.ttf [regular] and Medioi.ttf [italic]) Style: Based on a 1493 edition of Isocrates published in Milan. Note: Has hinting to make it legible even at small sizes. Source: Contact Ralph Hancock for details on purchasing this font ($40). Support: Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Latin
	MgFuture UC Pol    [ show all samples ]  (Mg009N_P.TTF, Mg009B_P.TTF, Mg009I_P.TTF, and Mg009D_.TTF) Source: Part of Magenta's Ancient-Modern & Modern-Ancient Greek dictionary. Also included in the demo/trial version. Stats: Version 4.1 2-11-98 has 840 glyphs and 5,003 kerning pairs Support: Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Latin
	MgOpen Canonica    [ show all samples ]  (MgOpenCanonicaRegular.ttf, MgOpenCanonicaBold.ttf, MgOpenCanonicaOblique.ttf, and MgOpenCanonicaBoldOblique.ttf) Source: Free download from www.ellak.gr. Stats: Version 1.00 2004 initial release has 846 glyphs and 4,570 kerning pairs Support: Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Latin
	Microsoft Sans Serif    [ show all samples ]  (micross.ttf) Source: Supplied with Windows XP SP2 (service pack 2). Older versions were supplied with Windows XP and Windows 2000. Stats: Version 1.41 has 2,257 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Ajami, Azeri, Balochi, Berber, Brahui, Kazakh, Kirghiz Kurdish, Lahnda, Jawi, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Hebrew, Latin (basic and beyond), Thai, Vietnamese Warning: IPA, Greek polytonic, Greek Coptic, and many Cyrillic characters were only added with version 1.41. OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, MAR)
	MPH 2B Damase    [ show all samples ]  (damase_v.2.ttf from damase_v.2.zip) Source: Free download locally. Stats: Version 001.000 / 002.000 has 2,896 glyphs and 192 kerning pairs Support: Armenian, Cherokee, Coptic (Bohairic subset), Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Deseret, Georgian (Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri but no Mkhedruli), Glagolitic, Gothic, Greek (including Coptic characters), Hebrew, Latin, Limbu, Linear B (partial coverage of ideograms and syllabary), Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Osmanya, Phoenician, Shavian, Syloti Nagri (no conjuncts), Tai Le (no combining tone marks), Thaana, Tifinagh, Ugaritic, Vietnamese
	New Athena Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (newathu.ttf from NAUvversion_ttf.zip) PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy. Source: Free download from the New Athena Unicode page on GreekKeys. Stats: Version 2.005 July 2005 has 1,481 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Coptic, Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Latin
	TITUS Cyberbit Basic    [ show all samples ]  (tituscbz.ttf) PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy. Source: Free download (after submitting a form) from TITUS. Stats: Version 3.0 (2000) has 9,779 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Ethiopic, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Ogham, Runic, Thaana, Vietnamese
	Torquemada Starved Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (TorqThUn.ttf) Source: Free download from the Torturer/Torquemada page of Darren Rigby's "Objets Dart" site. Stats: Version 1 has 979 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including Coptic characters), Latin
	Unicopt    [ show all samples ] Source: Free download from Ben Crowder's website. Stats: Version 001.000 has 155 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Greek (Coptic only); Greek/Coptic characters also mapped to Latin codepoints
	Vusillus    [ show all samples ]  (vusilr__.ttf [regular] and vusili__.ttf [italic]) Style: Based on an 18th century Dutch font. Source: Comes with the registered version ($50) of the Antioch classical language utility. This font comes specifically with Antioch version 2 but registration covers both Antioch version 1 & 2. Support: Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Hebrew, Latin
	Vusillus Old Face    [ show all samples ]  (vusillus.ttf [regular] and vusilli.ttf [italic]) Style: Based on an 18th century Dutch font. Source: Comes with the registered version ($50) of the Antioch classical language utility. This font comes specifically with Antioch version 1 but registration covers both Antioch version 1 & 2. You can download the italic version of this font for free. Support: Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Hebrew, 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.
• The Unicode character code charts are available at the organization's website.
• Writing system information at Wikipedia and Omniglot.

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