More Unicode polytonic Greek fonts

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Rod Decker

I just noticed on Adobe’s site that the following (commercial) fonts are listed as having Unicode polytonic Greek:

Arno Pro
Garamond Premier Pro

The pdf sample sheets posted show very nice polytonic glyphs. Arno is simple but gracious; Garamond has a very nice flair, almost an italic look to it.

(I had known that Minion Pro and Myriad Pro contained polytonic, but these two are new to me.)

And BTW, I’ve just been trying out Acrobat.com and the online word processor, BuzzWord. The file sharing options of Acrobat.com have potential that I’m going to experiment with, but the word processor is not usable for polytonic Greek—even though it include Minion and Myriad fonts. :(

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Professor of Greek and New Testament Baptist Bible Seminary Clarks Summit, PA 18411 USA
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3 Responses to More Unicode polytonic Greek fonts

  1. Phil Gons says:
    August 10, 2009 at 9:35 pm

    1. Check your blog post “New Vista web fonts and Greek” and notice the first comment. See also my follow-up post “Fonts Supporting Polytonic Unicode Greek“. :)

    2. Myriad Pro, unfortunately, does not support polytonic Unicode Greek. You might be mistaking it for the similar-looking Hypatia Sans Pro.

  2. Dr. Rod Decker says:
    August 11, 2009 at 9:31 am

    Your memory is far better than mine! You are quite right that you told us about these some time ago. Since I don’t own them, I managed to forget. Anyone who would like to buy me a set of the Arno fonts would receive my gratitude! :)

  3. Peter Gurry says:
    August 12, 2009 at 4:53 pm

    If I remember right, Arno is designed by Robert Slimbach who also designed Minion. Arno is supposed to be a bit fancier and refined than Minion. Their both excellent fonts though I think Minion is a bit sturdier for setting longer works.