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Sample of GFS Porson Rg at 24pt GFS Porson Rg    [ show all samples ]  (GFSPorson.otf from GFS_Porson_OT.zip)
Source: Free download from the Greek Font Society.
Stats: Version OTF1.000... has 378 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Greek (including polytonic)
OpenType Layout Tables: Latin
Sample of GR Uncial at 20pt 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
Sample of GraecaU at 26pt GraecaU    [ show all samples ]  (regular, bold, italic, and bold italic)
Platforms: Both Windows and Macintosh.
Source: Professional font available for purchase from Linguist's Software.
Support: Greek (including polytonic), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Greek
Sample of GraecaUBSU at 26pt GraecaUBSU    [ show all samples ]  (regular, bold, italic, and bold italic)
Platforms: Both Windows and Macintosh.
Note: Designed for the text and Old Testament quotation in the next edition of the United Bible Societies' The Greek New Testament.
Source: Professional font available for purchase from Linguist's Software.
Support: Greek (including polytonic), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Greek
Sample of GreekSansLSU at 26pt GreekSansLSU    [ show all samples ]  (regular, bold, italic, and bold italic)
Platforms: Both Windows and Macintosh.
Source: Professional font available for purchase from Linguist's Software.
Support: Greek (including polytonic), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Greek
Sample of HellenicaU at 26pt HellenicaU    [ show all samples ]  (regular, bold, italic, and bold italic)
Platforms: Both Windows and Macintosh.
Source: Professional font available for purchase from Linguist's Software.
Support: Greek (including polytonic), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Greek
Sample of Hindsight Unicode at 28pt 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
Sample of KadmosU at 26pt 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
Sample of LeedsUni at 26pt 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)
Sample of Legendum at 24pt Legendum    [ show all samples ]  (Legendum.otf or Legendum_legacy.otf)
Source: Free download from Rogier van Dalen.
Stats: Version .50 has 416 glyphs and 21 kerning pairs
Support: Greek (including polytonic), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Greek, Latin
Sample of Linux Libertine at 26pt Linux Libertine    [ show all samples ]  (LinLibertine...ttf [regular, bold, italic, bold italic, and underlined] from LinLibertine....tgz)
Source: Free download from the Linux Libertine Open Fonts project.
Be sure to keep the ".tgz" file extension when downloading the archive. You can use WinZIP or similar tools to decompress and extract the font files.
Stats: Version 2.0.9 has 1,492 glyphs and 259 kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian plus some additional letters), Greek, Latin, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: default, Cyrillic, Greek, Latin
Sample of Mediolanum at 24pt 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
Sample of MgFuture UC Pol at 26pt 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
Sample of MgOpen Canonica at 26pt 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
Sample of Microsoft Sans Serif at 26pt 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)
Sample of Minion Pro at 26pt Minion Pro    [ show all samples ]  (MinionPro-Regular.otf, MinionPro-Bold.otf, MinionPro-It.otf, and MinionPro-BoldIt)
Source: Comes with the free download of Adobe Reader 7.0. The fonts aren't automatically installed in Windows' "Fonts" folder but can probably be found in the "Resource\Font" subdirectory of whichever directory Adobe Reader 7.0 was installed in (for example C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0).
Stats: Version 2.012 ... has 1,663 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek (including polytonic), Latin, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: Cyrillic, Greek, Latin (default, Azeri, Crimean Tatar, German, Moldavian, Romanian, Serbian, Turkish)
Sample of New Athena Unicode at 24pt 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
Sample of OdysseaU at 26pt OdysseaU    [ show all samples ]  (regular, bold, italic, and bold italic)
Platforms: Both Windows and Macintosh.
Source: Professional font available for purchase from Linguist's Software.
Support: Greek (including polytonic), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Greek
Sample of OdysseaUBSU at 26pt OdysseaUBSU    [ show all samples ]  (regular, bold, italic, and bold italic)
Platforms: Both Windows and Macintosh.
Note: Designed for the text and Old Testament quotation in the next edition of the United Bible Societies' The Greek New Testament.
Source: Professional font available for purchase from Linguist's Software.
Support: Greek (including polytonic), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Greek
Sample of Palatino Linotype at 24pt Palatino Linotype    [ show all samples ]
Source: Comes with Microsoft's Windows XP and Windows 2000.
Stats: Version 1.40 has 1,328 glyphs and 148 kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek (including polytonic), Latin, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: Cyrillic, Greek, Latin (default, German, Romanian, Turkish, Vietnamese)
Sample of PayneU at 26pt PayneU    [ show all samples ]  (regular, bold, italic, and bold italic)
Platforms: Both Windows and Macintosh.
Source: Professional font available for purchase from Linguist's Software.
Support: Greek (including polytonic), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Greek
Sample of Porson at 24pt Porson    [ show all samples ]  (porson__.ttf from porson08.zip)
Source: Free download from the Greek Font Foundry.
Stats: Version 0.21 has 468 glyphs and 51 kerning pairs
Support: Greek (including polytonic), Latin
Sample of SymbolGreekU at 26pt SymbolGreekU    [ show all samples ]  (regular, bold, italic, and bold italic)
Platforms: Both Windows and Macintosh.
Note: Developed from the Linguist's Software font data that was used to publish the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum, 27th edition.
Source: Professional font available for purchase from Linguist's Software.
Support: Greek (including polytonic), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Greek
Sample of Tahoma at 26pt Tahoma    [ show all samples ]  (tahoma.ttf and tahomabd.ttf)
Source: Comes with Microsoft's Windows XP and Windows 2000.
Stats: Version 3.14 has 2,034 glyphs and 674 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 (including polytonic), Hebrew, Latin, Thai, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of TITUS Cyberbit Basic at 26pt 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
Sample of UncialLSU at 26pt UncialLSU    [ show all samples ]
Platforms: Both Windows and Macintosh.
Source: Professional font available for purchase from Linguist's Software.
Support: Greek (including polytonic), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Greek
Sample of Vusillus at 26pt 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
Sample of Vusillus Old Face at 26pt 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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