Directory of Fonts and Software Resources

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Fonts are sets of typographic characters, typically used to write documents on word processors. Well known examples are the Arial or Times New Roman fonts bundled with the Windows operating systems.

Resources in This Category

• Antioch Greek Utility

  http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~hancock/antioch.htm
  Download Ralph Hancock's shareware utility and fonts for writing Unicode Greek in Word 97/2000. Includes converters for numerous other encodings, and an optional autocorrect feature for accenting commonly-typed words automatically.

• Athenian Font

  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Help/Athenian_Font.html
  For Macintosh or Windows. To type using the font, you have to buy a $50 GreekKeys program.

• Diogenes

  http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/diogenes/
  A tool for searching and browsing the databases of ancient texts published by the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae.

• Magenta Software: Polytonistis

  http://www.magenta.gr/
  Commercial utility for writing Unicode Greek in Word 97/2000. Includes several very nice Unicode fonts.

• Silver Mountain Software

  http://www.silvermountainsoftware.com/
  Software for Classical and Koine Greek studies. Includes the $20 shareware font and utility pack "SGREEK", which can be used on the Perseus Project site. Font allows typing using Beta code.

• SPIonic-Macintosh

  ftp://scholar.cc.emory.edu/pub/fonts/windows/SPIonic.sit.hqx
  FTP link to a Sans-Serif Greek font for Macintosh (type using Beta code).

• SPIonic-Windows

  ftp://scholar.cc.emory.edu/pub/fonts/windows/SPIONIC_.TTF
  FTP link to a very nice Sans-Serif TTF Greek font (uses Beta code). Very readable.

• Tonismos

  http://www.tonismos.gr/
  Resource to assist with Greek text file conversion.

• Unicode Polytonic Greek

  http://www.stoa.org/unicode/
  A discussion of the Unicode standard as pertains to usage by classicists.

 

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