Greek Language Font

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• Collegiate Greek Font

If you’re a subscriber you probably know that I like to make your life easier and create selections of the best resources on specific categories, like the one we have today: Free Roman and Greek looking fonts.I said Greek font looking because the Greek fonts are not all with the Greek alphabet but instead, show a Greek influence.I hope this collection will help you select one that you will use in a design project with an ancient theme that will need a specific font like these. Greek and Roman fonts (an overview).

GreeKish. Capitalis Goreanis. Atene. Ifao N Copte. Archeologicaps.

300 Trojans. Greek Regular. Gelio.

Aegis. Cleopatra. ODIN’S SPEAR. Naxos Bold. Grecian Formula. Adonais.

Satyr. Xtra. Art Greco.

Pirho Herakles. Romance Fatal. Dalek. Elektra. Marathon. SPAchmim. Olympus.

Achilles. Diogenes. Ancient Geek.

Futhark AOE. Pegasus. Empiric Roman.

Petitix Three Callig. Alfabetix. Metrolox. RVBcalx. Pythia. Greek fontsNow let’s take a look at them in detail.

GreeKishCapitalis GoreanisAtene. ODIN’S SPEARNaxos BoldGrecian FormulaAdonaisSatyrXtraArt GrecoPirho HeraklesRomance FatalDalekElektraMarathonSPAchmimThe font is designed to follow the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae encoding scheme to as great an extent as possible, with extra characters added that are not present in the Greek alphabet font.In addition to the standard Sahidic characters, three forms of the Bohairic/Achmimic chai (corresponding to the variant forms of the glyph) are included. The composite character ti and the supralinear stroke are also included. OlympusAchillesDiogenesAncient GeekFuthark AOEPegasusEmpiric RomanPetitix Three CalligAlfabetixMetroloxRVBcalxPythiaA little bit of history about Roman and Greek fonts Greek fontsWe can trace the ancient Greek font back to the introduction of Phoenician letterforms, and yet, despite it, the Greek alphabet is still work in progress.

In this article, we will concentrate on the early days of the Greek font, before today’s Greek alphabet came into place.Greek alphabet fonts own their existence to the Phoenician alphabet, which was at the time very explicit concerning consonants. It was not before the 9 th century BC that this alphabet developed its first vowel forms, in fact, basic matres elections. These matres lectionis, as well as a number of Phoenician consonants that are no longer used in the Greek language, are more suitable for Semitic languages and had to be adapted in line with acrophonic principles to create what are today the vowels of this alphabet.The creator of this alphabet was a Greek expert with lots of experience in contemporary Phoenician scripts. As soon as it was first introduced in Greece, the alphabet spread to Phrygia (eastwards), that devised a very similar script.

It also reached West Greek traders and Etruscans which adapted it to suit their own language.Additional letters in Greek typographyOver time, certain Greek dialects created and added more letters to the original alphabet, as for instance the aspirated versions of Π and K (together with the aspirated version of T), and several combinations between Π, K, and Σ. Greek dialects also differ by the diverse symbols they use:. kʰ can stand for Κ, ΚΗ, Ψ, or Χ.

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pʰ can stand for Π, ΠΗ, or Φ. kʰs can stand for ΚΣ, ΧΣ, Χ, or Ξ. pʰs can stand for ΠΣ, ΦΣ, or ΨSince the Greek alphabet allows only limited consonant combinations, certain letters from their special consonant clusters (pʰs and kʰs). This way, all Greek syllables can be written with consonant letters in the end.Greeks, the same as Phoenicians, distinguish vowels by their length.

The Greek alphabet, for instance, has seven long and five short vowels, and only five letters to write those.Following the example of Phoenician writing, the difference in the vowels’ length cannot be understood from the way it was written.Nonetheless, in the 6 th century BC two more letters were developed to fill the gap: eta (not used in eastern Greek dialects where there is no ‘h’), and omega that stands for both the long vowel ɛː and the long ɔː. There isn’t much data concerning omega’s provenance, but the generally accepted idea is that it derives from omicron (it uses the same symbol, with an extra line drawn underneath). Long eː and oː are written using digraphs (ει and ου), while the long and short a, i and u are never distinguished when writing.Anglo-Saxon InfluencesGreek language fonts adopted many foreign customs during the years, and have little to do with the ancient Greek font roots.A good example of that is the Anglo-Saxon influence, typically seen in inter-word spacing. Visually explained, this means that there is double blank space following full points and double punctuation so that it is easier for the eye to spot the beginning of a new sentence.Greek font letters follow this rule in almost every occasion, excluding dialects that abide more by French rules. In the French case, double punctuation is followed by standardized thin-width space (not the colon, though).Most Greek typesets, however, differentiate spacing depending on the punctuation mark, and still follow the Anglo-Saxon convention and put less space in front of the semicolon than in front of the exclamation mark.

Greek guillemets, on the other hand, have no spaces at all).As it can be concluded, the Greek writing font was influenced in many ways and by many western typefaces, but the root of Greece’s most common typeface is still anonymous. It is often referred to as the ‘plain typeface’.To understand the influence of each European typeface, one should rather look at the evolution of these fonts, and he’d conclude that the three most popular printing methods from the 20 th century are still used in different combinations. Some of them, such as the hot-lead typography has vanished completely in other countries but remains very popular in Greek typeface.Priority is still given to computer-typeset books compared to traditional prints, taking into consideration that regular Greek style fonts were almost impossible to process using computer tools. Luckily, technology nowadays has improved a lot and is thus able to adapt to a regular Greek text font.

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Roman FontsThe Roman alphabet, or as it is originally called the Latin Alphabet, is employed by most of today’s modern languages. Roman font style is currently the most widely used system worldwide, and the official script of all Western and most Eastern European languages. Certain non-European languages are also using Roman script font, including Swahili, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Malay, and Turkish. Languages such as Urdu, Hindi, and Somali are also using Roman type font as an alternative writing system.The Roman fonts are based on Greek alphabet’s western variations, first developed by the Etruscans who ‘borrowed’ ancient Greek fonts, and then the Romans who developed it and adjusted it to form the old Latin font. Some of the Roman characters sound differently today, others w lost or gained, and a variety of Roman style fonts appeared. Two of those styles were united in a single upper-lower case script (capitals and small letters) and became what we know today as a modern Roman typeface.Observed historically, the Roman text is only one of the three leading Latin typography scripts, followed by blackletter and italic. It originates from the European 15 th-century manuscript style, created by pairing ancient Rome’s inscriptional capitals with Carolingian minuscules.In the dawn of the Renaissance, Italic and Roman typography were used differently, while today they are often mixed, and most typefaces such as the upright Roman style associate them with oblique letters and styles.

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The most popular Roman typefaces are Times New Roman, Bembo, Garamond, Caslon, Jenson, and Baskerville.Actually, all uncapitalized Italian typefaces from the time of the Renaissance, as well as the upright scripts deriving from them can be distinguished as Roman typefaces, unlike the ancient Roman font.The new Roman alphabetThe new, modernized Roman alphabet is used by most Indo-European languages, in particular, such spoken in Western Europe. This refers mostly to the Germanic languages (German, English, Swedish, etc.), and the Romance languages (Italian, French, Spanish, etc.), but also non-European languages such as Vietnamese and Turkish.

There are, of course, some Indo-European languages that use a different alphabet (Greek or Russian, for instance).Diacritics (symbols that indicate tones, added below and above letters) are typical for almost all languages applying the Roman alphabet font. The main language among them English has no such marks, excluding the words that protruded from other languages.