Installing Greek Fonts On Your System


Mac OSX :p ;) :o :)

or

Windows 9x/Me/XP/W2K/W2K3/VISTA/W2K8/W7 (WTF !!!!)



UNICODE GREEK FONTS

If you see a row of eight accented characters on the left that resemble the ones on the right (not necessarily the same font), then you have a Unicode polytonic Greek font installed and your browser should be ready to go:

ἀέῃϊὸῥϋᾧ       characters

The fonts below are all freely downloadable.  More commercial and shareware fonts are available, but my goal is to help make Unicode Greek freely accessible.  I have not included several fonts which seem to have some problems or are not intended for general use, such as Arial Unicode MS.  DISCLAIMER:  I make no claims as to the functioning of any of the fonts or software below.  I have tested Aristarcoj with Windows 98, 2000, and XP using four different browsers, and have suffered no untoward effects.  Please use customary discretion when downloading any software.

 
These fonts contain all of the Greek and Coptic characters, including archaic numerals such as digamma:
Aristarcoj Aristarcoj version 2;
download it here
Arev Sans Arev Sans by
Tavmjong Bah
AttikaU AttikaU by
the American Philological Association
BosporosU BosporosU by
the American Philological Association
Cardo Cardo by
David J. Perry
CMU Serif CMU Serif (and 32 others in the family!) at
Computer Modern Unicode fonts
Works in Word and Firefox, but not IE6 on my computer.
Hindsight Unicode Hindsight Unicode by
Darren Rigby
KadmosU KadmosU by
the American Philological Association
 
These as well contain all the numerals:
DejaVu Serif DejaVu Serif from
SourceForge
Dioxipe Dioxipe from
the Elpenor site
Galilee Unicode Gk Galilee Unicode Gk by
Rodney J. Decker
Gandhari Unicode Gandhari Unicode from
the Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project
New Athena Unicode New Athena Unicode from
the GreekKeys site
 
The rest are all missing some numerals:
Aisa Unicode Aisa Unicode, packaged with
the MultiKey utility
Alkaios Alkaios by
Lucius Hartmann
Asteria Asteria from
the Elpenor site
Caslon Caslon by
George Williams
Chrysanthi Unicode Chrysanthi Unicode by
D. Paul Alecsandri
FreeSerif FreeSerif from
the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Galatia SIL Galatia SIL from
Galatia SIL Greek Unicode Fonts
GentiumAlt GentiumAlt by
Victor Gaultney
Would be my choice for a "big" Unicode font, if it had numerals and a handwritten theta.
Georgia Greek Georgia Greek, available at
Christos A. Sartzetakis' site or the Elpenor site
Legendum Legendum by
Rogier van Dalen
The larger font, Legendum_legacy.otf, uses precomposed characters.
Minion Pro Minion Pro
Packaged with Acrobat 7; find it in the Acrobat folder, such as C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Resource\Font
Monospace Monospace by
George Williams
I uninstalled this font because it conflicts with the CSS generic family specifier of the same name.
Palatino Linotype Palatino Linotype
Packaged with Windows XP/2000; also commercially available.
Porson Porson by
Richard G. Spaulding
This font did not display in IE5.5
Thryomanes Thryomanes by
Herman Miller
Works in Word and Firefox, but not IE6 on my computer.
TITUS Cyberbit Basic TITUS Cyberbit Basic from
the TITUS site
Vusillus Old Face Italic Vusillus Old Face Italic by
Ralph Hancock


Old Windows

A. Download the fonts code (Select either arial.exe or wgreek19.zip).
B. Copy the code to your windows system directory and run it (arial.exe) or unzip it (wgreek19.zip) and follow the instructions.
C. Install the fonts using the windows control panel.
D. Select the Greek fonts from your browser.


Macintosh 68000

Download the fonts code (elot928_mac.sit.hqx) and install it.


X Windows

A. Download the fonts code (X11_greek_fonts.tar.gz or greek.tar.gz) and install it.
B. Follow the installation procedure


Amiga

A. Check the README file
B. Download the fonts code

G-TERM Keymap

Check this one



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