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OpenType fonts with Greek polytonic (classical) characters

Peter G.
26.Oct.2005 2.55pm
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Can anyone suggest some good OpenType fonts that are good for running text and have good latin and classical greek character sets?

Some examples would be Adobe’s Minion Pro and the new Garamond Premier Pro.



paul d hunt
26.Oct.2005 9.10pm
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Adobe Garamond Premeire Pro has gotten rave reviews concerning it’s Greek characters and it includes polytonic Greek.


dan_reynolds
26.Oct.2005 9.33pm
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Palatino Linotype has the polytonic range inside it.


sii
26.Oct.2005 9.54pm
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Related thread - http://typophile.com/node/15572


Peter G.
27.Oct.2005 1.03pm
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Thanks, guys.


Peter G.
27.Oct.2005 2.22pm
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I just remembered, Gentium has a polytonic Greek character set. It’s not OpenType, but it is free.


hrant
27.Oct.2005 2.29pm
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And Gentium’s Greek has forms gently varied depending
on whether they’re for mixing with Latin or stand-alone.

hhp


sii
27.Oct.2005 8.19pm
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Peter, which specific OpenType features are you chasing?

Cheers, Si


Peter G.
10.Nov.2005 12.42pm
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Nothing in particular, Si, but old-style figures would be nice. Mostly, I just want to take advantage of the automatic ligatures with OpenType and Adobe CS products.