I’ll just point to a few typefaces I have used, and can therefore recommend. I only consider OpenType fonts, for reasons other people have explained much better than I could; but I’d add that when it comes to non-Latin you’d be a fool to not use Unicode-encoded fonts.
Adobe Minion Pro and Myriad Pro are as good in their Greeks as they are in their Latins; ditto Warnock Pro, for a different kind of documents. More interesting (and for an entirely different category of documents) Garamond Premiere Pro — also, the only truly complete character set in the stable, with full polytonic and small caps.
Helvetica Linotype is a cut above its siblings, if you’re looking in that direction.
Victor Gaultney’s Gentium supports polytonic Greek (and is free).
There’s also a small operation in Seattle with some very good — albeit monotonic — Greeks under its belt, but I haven’t seen the fonts retail yet; my guess is they’ll end up bundled with some piece of software or other.
11.Oct.2005 9.26pm
Cannibal Fonts, maybe.?
www.fonts.gr
Dav, formlos
11.Oct.2005 9.39pm
Adobe, Monotype, Tiro, Linotype, Typotheque
Check the Greek type section of Natasha’s site - http://www.raissaki.com/
Natasha is the ATypI Country Delegate for Greece
Si
15.Oct.2005 4.13pm
I’ll just point to a few typefaces I have used, and can therefore recommend. I only consider OpenType fonts, for reasons other people have explained much better than I could; but I’d add that when it comes to non-Latin you’d be a fool to not use Unicode-encoded fonts.
Adobe Minion Pro and Myriad Pro are as good in their Greeks as they are in their Latins; ditto Warnock Pro, for a different kind of documents. More interesting (and for an entirely different category of documents) Garamond Premiere Pro — also, the only truly complete character set in the stable, with full polytonic and small caps.
Helvetica Linotype is a cut above its siblings, if you’re looking in that direction.
Victor Gaultney’s Gentium supports polytonic Greek (and is free).
There’s also a small operation in Seattle with some very good — albeit monotonic — Greeks under its belt, but I haven’t seen the fonts retail yet; my guess is they’ll end up bundled with some piece of software or other.
15.Oct.2005 5.06pm
“There’s also a small operation in Seattle”
Would that be near Redmond?
:-)
ChrisL
15.Oct.2005 5.15pm
technically it should be a “small operation *near* Seattle”
15.Oct.2005 5.33pm
More like: Seattle is a small operation near it.
hhp
15.Oct.2005 5.55pm
“Seattle is a small operation near it.”
LOL!!! One of your better ones Hrant :-)
ChrisL