Doulos SIL (
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic p ...
for "slave") is a serif
typeface
A typeface (or font family) is the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight (e.g. bold), slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font.
There are thousands o ...
developed by
SIL International, very similar to Times or Times New Roman. Unlike
Times New Roman
Times New Roman is a serif typeface. It was commissioned by the British newspaper ''The Times'' in 1931 and conceived by Stanley Morison, the artistic adviser to the British branch of the printing equipment company Monotype, in collaboration w ...
, Doulos only has a single face, Regular. The goal of its design according to the
SIL International website is to "provide a single
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard, wh ...
-based font family that would contain a comprehensive inventory of
glyphs needed for almost any Roman- or
Cyrillic-based writing system, whether used for phonetic or orthographic needs." Along with
Charis SIL and
Gentium, it is licensed under the
SIL Open Font License (OFL).
OFL information page on sil.org
/ref> This font has a cousin specially designed for numbered musical notation
The numbered musical notation (, not to be confused with the integer notation) is a cipher notation system used in China, and to some extent in Japan (with 7th being si,), Indonesia (in a slightly different format called "not angka"), Malaysia, ...
named Doulos SIL Cipher.
References
External links
Doulos SIL Font HomeDoulos SIL Cipher FontSmart Unicode typefaces released under free license
IPA typefaces
Free software Unicode typefaces
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