Installing Greek Fonts
On Your System
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:
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 version 2; download it here | ||
Arev Sans by Tavmjong Bah | ||
AttikaU by the American Philological Association | ||
BosporosU by the American Philological Association | ||
Cardo by David J. Perry | ||
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 by Darren Rigby | ||
KadmosU by the American Philological Association | ||
These as well contain all the numerals: | ||
DejaVu Serif from SourceForge | ||
Dioxipe from the Elpenor site | ||
Galilee Unicode Gk by Rodney J. Decker | ||
Gandhari Unicode from the Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project | ||
New Athena Unicode from the GreekKeys site | ||
The rest are all missing some numerals: | ||
Aisa Unicode, packaged with the MultiKey utility | ||
Alkaios by Lucius Hartmann | ||
Asteria from the Elpenor site | ||
Caslon by George Williams | ||
Chrysanthi Unicode by D. Paul Alecsandri | ||
FreeSerif from the Free Software Foundation, Inc. | ||
Galatia SIL from Galatia SIL Greek Unicode Fonts | ||
GentiumAlt by Victor Gaultney Would be my choice for a "big" Unicode font, if it had numerals and a handwritten theta. | ||
Georgia Greek, available at Christos A. Sartzetakis' site or the Elpenor site | ||
Legendum by Rogier van Dalen The larger font, Legendum_legacy.otf, uses precomposed characters. | ||
Minion Pro Packaged with Acrobat 7; find it in the Acrobat folder, such as C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Resource\Font | ||
Monospace by George Williams I uninstalled this font because it conflicts with the CSS generic family specifier of the same name. | ||
Palatino Linotype Packaged with Windows XP/2000; also commercially available. | ||
Porson by Richard G. Spaulding This font did not display in IE5.5 | ||
Thryomanes by Herman Miller Works in Word and Firefox, but not IE6 on my computer. | ||
TITUS Cyberbit Basic from the TITUS site | ||
Vusillus Old Face Italic by Ralph Hancock |
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.
Download the fonts code (elot928_mac.sit.hqx) and install it.
A. Download the fonts code (X11_greek_fonts.tar.gz
or greek.tar.gz) and install it.
B. Follow the
installation procedure
Check this one