[B-Greek] Comparing Unicode fonts

Wieland Willker willker at chemie.uni-bremen.de
Fri Feb 4 09:31:15 EST 2005


After comparing the (freely) available Unicode fonts I have put together
a PDF page with the 6 fonts I personally found interesting. Have a look
at: 
http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~wie/Unicode-fonts.pdf

The first three are the "normal" ones. Gentium and Minion look very
similar. Note that Gentium Alt has the advantage of using the lunate
circumflex. Palatino is more wide, better for fast reading. 

For comparison I have added the Bibleworks font, which is not Unicode as
yet. What is striking is the width of the blank space in the BW font.
This makes the general appearance much more beautiful. Compare with the
condensed fonts above. I think the space between words should be
generally wider in Greek compared to Latin, for a better word
separation, because of the many accents. 
Test this out by replacing one blank with two blanks using Find/Replace!


The three fonts at the bottom are the more beautiful ones. 
Note especially the Porson font, which reminds me of the old UBS
versions. It looks a bit bold on the screen, but is very beautiful in
the print out! 

Download paths for the fonts can be found here: 
http://www.russellcottrell.com/greek/fonts.htm

Best wishes
    Wieland
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Wieland Willker, Bremen, Germany
mailto:willker at chemie.uni-bremen.de
http://www.uni-bremen.de/~wie
Textcritical commentary: 
http://www.uni-bremen.de/~wie/TCG/index.html




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