Greek Unicode Fonts (original) (raw)

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

Comic Sans MS [ show all samples ] (comic.ttf and comicbd.ttf)
Source: Supplied with the Windows XP SP2 (service pack 2) update. Older versions were supplied with various Microsoft products and the Smart package of Microsoft's core fonts project.
Stats: Version 2.20 has 574 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Latin

Courier New [ show all samples ] (cour.ttf, courbd.ttf, courbi.ttf and couri.ttf)
Source: Supplied with various Microsoft products.
Stats: Version 2.90 has 1,318 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Persian), Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic

Cumberland [ show all samples ] (cumbc.ttf, cumbbc.ttf, cumbic.ttf, and cumbbic.ttf)
Source: Supplied with StarOffice 7.0, which is free for education and research purposes.
Stats: Version 1.01 has 667 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Greek, Latin

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

Devroye Unicode [ show all samples ] (devroyun.ttf from dev_tt.zip)
Source: Free download of pack 0182 from an Apostrophe archive site.
Stats: Version 1.2 has 713 glyphs and 1,967 kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Greek, Latin

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

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

Franklin Gothic Book [ show all samples ] (frabk.ttf and frabkit.ttf)
Source: Supplied with various Microsoft products.
Stats: Version 2.01 has 660 glyphs and 1,000 kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Greek, Latin

Franklin Gothic Demi [ show all samples ] (fradm.ttf and fradmit.ttf)
Source: Supplied with various Microsoft products.
Stats: Version 2.00 has 663 glyphs and 1,000 kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Greek, Latin

Franklin Gothic Demi Cond [ show all samples ] (fradmcn.ttf)
Source: Supplied with various Microsoft products.
Stats: Version 2.00 has 663 glyphs and 1,000 kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Greek, Latin

Franklin Gothic Heavy [ show all samples ] (frahv.ttf and frahvit.ttf)
Source: Supplied with various Microsoft products.
Stats: Version 2.00 has 660 glyphs and 1,000 kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Greek, Latin

Franklin Gothic Medium [ show all samples ] (framd.ttf and framdit.ttf)
Source: Supplied with various Microsoft products.
Stats: Version 2.20 has 660 glyphs and 1,000 kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Greek, Latin

Franklin Gothic Medium Cond [ show all samples ] (framdcn.ttf)
Source: Supplied with various Microsoft products.
Stats: Version 2.00 has 663 glyphs and 1,000 kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Greek, Latin

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

Frutiger Linotype [ show all samples ] (frutiger.ttf, frutbd.ttf, frutit.ttf and frutz.ttf)
Source: Part of the free Microsoft Reader product.
Stats: Version 1.13 has 840 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Greek, IPA, 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

Garamond [ show all samples ] (gara.ttf, garabd.ttf, garait.ttf)
Note: A earlier version of this font is supplied with StarOffice 7.0.
Source: Supplied with various Microsoft products. Also available at ftp://ftp.carrier.kiev.ua/pub/windows/fonts/unicode/.
Stats: Version 2.35 has 663 glyphs and 498 kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Greek, Latin

Garava [ show all samples ] (Garava Regular.ttf, Garava Bold.ttf, Garava Italic.ttf, Garava Bold Italic.ttf, Garava Heavy, Garava Small Caps.ttf, and Garava Small Caps Bold.ttf from the Garava.7z archive)
Source: Free download from the Association for Insight Meditation.
Note: Requires a program such as the free 7-Zip utility to extract files from the .7z download.
Stats: Version 1.01 August 6, 2005 has 1,319 glyphs and 432 kerning pairs
Support: Greek, Latin, Vietnamese
Note: Extensive coverage of Latin characters with diacritics including those needed for Sanskrit and Pali transcription.

Garogier [ show all samples ] (Garogier_unhinted.otf)
Source: Free download from Rogier van Dalen.
Stats: Version .50 has 396 glyphs and 100 kerning pairs
Support: Greek, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Greek, Latin

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