The Greek Font Society () is a non-profit organization in

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, founded in 1992, devoted to improving the standard of

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digital

typography Typography is the art and technique of Typesetting, arranging type to make written language legibility, legible, readability, readable and beauty, appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, Point (typogra ...

. It has issued four digital

font In metal typesetting, a font is a particular size, weight and style of a ''typeface'', defined as the set of fonts that share an overall design. For instance, the typeface Bauer Bodoni (shown in the figure) includes fonts " Roman" (or "regul ...

s, all with full

polytonic Greek orthography has used a variety of diacritics starting in the Hellenistic period. The more complex polytonic orthography (), which includes five diacritics, notates Ancient Greek phonology. The simpler monotonic orthography (), introduce ...

support: * GFS Bodoni, a modernized version of Giambattista Bodoni's 1793 design.
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* GFS Didot, inspired by Firmin Didot's 1805 design.
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* GFS Neohellenic, cut by the

Lanston Monotype Company Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., founded as Lanston Monotype Machine Company in 1887 in Philadelphia by Tolbert Lanston, is an American (historically Anglo-American) company that specializes in digital typesetting and typeface design for use with ...

.
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* GFS Porson, originally created by Richard Porson from Cambridge, at the end of the 18th century.
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Other fonts include: * GFS Complutum * GFS Bodoni Classic * GFS Baskerville * GFS Gazis * GFS Didot Classic * GFS Porson * GFS Solomos * GFS Olga * GFS Neohellenic * GFS Artemisia * GFS Theokritos * GFS Elpis * GFS Göschen The society has been quite prolific in the creation of new fonts. It sponsored an international symposium on the Greek alphabet and Greek typography in 1995. For the

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, it designed and published an edition of the 14 ''Olympian Odes'' of

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using historic Greek typefaces. The majority of its fonts are licensed under the

SIL Open Font License The SIL Open Font License (or OFL in short) is one of the major open font licenses, which allows embedding, or "bundling", of the font in commercially sold products. OFL is a free and open source license. It was created by SIL Global, the ...

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versions of the following typefaces are also available: GFS Didot TeX, GFS Bodoni TeX, GFS NeoHellenic TeX, GFS Porson TeX and GFS Artemisia TeX. A notable recent addition is th
GFS Neohellenic Math

OpenType OpenType is a format for scalable computer fonts. Derived from TrueType, it retains TrueType's basic structure but adds many intricate data structures for describing typographic behavior. OpenType is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corpora ...

font (George Matthiopoulos, Antonis Tsolomitis and others), which may be the only sans-serif math typeface currently (spring 2018) available (freely or otherwise) for use with

XeTeX XeTeX ( or ; see also Pronouncing and writing "TeX") is a TeX typesetting engine using Unicode and supporting modern font technologies such as OpenType, Graphite and Apple Advanced Typography (AAT). It was originally written by Jonathan Kew ...

and

LuaTeX LuaTeX is a TeX-based computer typesetting system which started as a version of pdfTeX with a Lua (programming language), Lua scripting engine embedded. After some experiments it was adopted by the TeX Live distribution as a successor to pdfTeX (i ...

as well as

-compatible software such as

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References

* Michael S. Macrakis (ed.), ''Greek letters: from tablets to pixels, proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Greek Font Society'', Oak Knoll Press, 1996, . Includes papers on history, typography, and character coding by

Hermann Zapf Hermann Zapf (; 8 November 1918 – 4 June 2015) was a German type designer and calligrapher who lived in Darmstadt, Germany. He was married to the calligrapher and typeface designer Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse. Typefaces he designed include ...

Matthew Carter Matthew Carter (born 1 October 1937) is an English type designer.A Man of Letters

, Nicolas Barker, John A. Lane, Kyle McCarter, Jerôme Peignot, Pierre MacKay, Silvio Levy, et al.

External links

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