Greek Fonts
 
Greek Fonts
Most fonts presented on this page are either shareware or freeware and are available in versions for both Windows and MacIntosh. Unicode fonts also work for Linux.
Unicode
The list of unicode fonts is constantly increasing, and support for Ancient Greek is included in a vast number of these fonts. They work well in all of the major web browsers and in all three of the most popular computer operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux). This is definitely the wave of the future. If you bought your computer within the last three years, it almost certainly has some unicode fonts already installed, and some of these will type in Greek if you select the Greek keyboard layout.
For a detailed discussion of how to use Unicode to display Greek text on a web page, see the  discussion provided by the STOA Consortium. For some helpful recommendations for using unicode in web pages, see Penn State's computing page for Greek texts.
Utilities for Converting Text to Unicode
If you do not know what Unicode is, visit  Sean Redmond's Unicode page. The page includes a utility to convert texts written in any of several traditional fonts to Unicode. It also includes a brief introduction to unicode.
James Naughton has provided a great little utility for creating unicode Greek text for display on the web. It allows you to type your text using a standard western keyboard and have the text converted on the fly to unicode Greek! It will even let you specify the font you want it to use.
  1. Free Unicode Fonts
  2. •Thesaurus Linguae Graeca
  3. The Thesaurus Linguae Graeca provides several fonts for free download.
  4. •Fonts from the Society of Biblical Literature
  5. The SBL is currently developing a new series of high-quality fonts for digital and print use. Hebrew was the first in the series to be released and is already available. SBL Greek and Latin are in development.
  6. While we wait for the SBL Greek unicode font, the legacy SP Fonts, developed by James R. Adair, are still available.
  7. •The SIL Greek Font System
  8. The Summer Institute of Linguistics provides two unicode fonts that are in wide use.
  9. ✦Galatia SIL
  10. Galatia SIL is the second release of the Biblical Greek font package from SIL International. The typeface is almost identical to the original SIL Galatia font, but is now encoded according to Unicode 3.1.
  11. ✦Gentium
  12. The Gentium font family is freely available. The design is highly readable, reasonably compact, and visually attractive. Gentium supports both polytonic and monotonic Greek, including a number of alternate forms.
  13. •Rod Decker's Galilee Font
  14. Decker's Galilee Font is now available in UNICODE Encoding.
  15. •William D. Mounce's Teknia Fonts Page
  16. William D. Mounce's Teknia Font is needed for the website accompanying Basics of Biblical Greek. It also works well for word processing the web.
  17. Unicode Fonts for Purchase
  18. The Greek Language and Linguistics Gateway does not receive any form of support from the companies whose products are listed here, and we offer no endorsement or warranty of any kind for these fonts.
  19. •Magenta
  20. Magenta (Matzenta) is a Greek company that produces a wide range of software, including unicode Greek fonts.
  21. •Linguist’s Software
  22. Linguists' Software offers high quality Greek fonts. The fonts used in both the UBS text and the Nestle-Aland text of the Greek New Testament come from this company, and their products are used around the world. The site also provides information on fonts for languages other than Greek.
  23. The prices are high, but the fonts are very high quality and are in wide use. With the advent of Unicode, such fonts have become far less necessary for the average student of Greek since many traditional fonts such as Arial now include the Greek character set.
Older Fonts (Not Unicode)
  1. •Fonts in Cyberspace: Greek
  2. This page, formerly maintained by the Summer Institute of Linguistics, offers a wonderful variety of older Greek Fonts, including one for Linear B. Many are free or shareware, but a few are commercial fonts requiring a licensing fee. The page is no longer being updated.
    * GoGreece
  1. GoGreece provides some older fonts that work well on legacy versions of Windows and Mac. The instructions they provide for installing them apply to these older operating systems.