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The Greek Font Society (Greek: Εταιρεία Ελληνικών Τυπογραφικών Στοιχείων) is a non-profit organization in Greece, founded in 1992, devoted to improving the standard of Greek digital typography. It has issued four digital fonts, all with full polytonic support:
Junicode has an individual Greek typeface, Foulis Greek. The design is a traditional revival as well. The design is a traditional revival as well. It is based on the Greek Double Pica cut by Alexander Wilson (c. 1714–1786), a Scottish doctor , astronomer , and typefounder.
Lithos is a glyphic sans-serif typeface designed by Carol Twombly in 1989 for Adobe Systems.Lithos is inspired by the unadorned, geometric letterforms of the engravings found on Ancient Greek public buildings.
An updated version of the roman and italic fonts called Gentium Plus, which includes the full extended Latin, IPA, Greek, and Cyrillic coverage, was released in November 2010. Gentium Plus variants containing an additional 3,800 glyphs, including Cyrillic and additional coverage of the IPA, were added in 2010 in a release called Gentium Plus .
The font includes over 1,400 glyphs as of the most recent version, and contains much bigger letters than the Zapfino fonts Linotype sells in retail channel. Since then, Linotype has extended Zapfino to include an additional Forte weight in their Zapfino Extra family which Apple has not licensed for distribution with macOS.
Minion is a very large family of fonts, including Greek, Armenian and Cyrillic alphabets, optical sizes, condensed styles and stylistic alternates such as swash capitals. [14] As a standard font in many of Adobe's programs, it is one of the most popular serif typefaces used in books.
EB Garamond is a free and open source implementation of Claude Garamond’s typeface, Garamond, and the matching Italic, Greek and Cyrillic characters designed by Robert Granjon. Its name is a shortening of E genolff– B erner Garamond which refers to the fact that the letter forms are taken from the Egenolff–Berner specimen printed in 1592.
John Bowman describes it as "the single most important contribution to Greek type design in Britain" [10] and two designs based on it by from the Figgins foundry as "the most beautiful Greek type ever". [11] An open-source digitisation has been published by the Greek Font Society. [3] [12]