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''A Greek typeface inspired by Alexander Wilson'' | ''A Greek typeface inspired by Alexander Wilson'' | ||
== Description == | == Description == | ||
A text typeface using the Greek letters designed by Alexander Wilson | |||
(1714-1786), a Scottish doctor, astronomer, and typefounder, who established a | |||
typefoundry in Glasgow in 1744. The type was especially designed for an edition | |||
of Homer’s epics, published in 1756-8 by Andrew and Robert Foulis, printers to | |||
the University of Glasgow. A modern revival, Wilson Greek, was designed by | |||
Matthew Carter in 1995. Peter S. Baker is also using Wilson’s Greek type in his | |||
Junicode font for medieval scholars (2007). | |||
The | Latin and Cyrillic are based on a Garamond typeface. The font covers the | ||
Windows Glyph List, IPA Extensions, Greek Extended, Ancient Greek Numbers, | |||
Byzantine and Ancient Greek Musical Notation, various typographic extras and | |||
several Open Type features (Case-Sensitive Forms, Small Capitals, Subscript, | |||
Superscript, Numerators, Denominators, Fractions, Old Style Figures, Historical | |||
Forms, Stylistic Alternates, Ligatures). | |||
It was created by George Douros | It was created by George Douros. | ||
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| | | [[rhbug:532816|532816]] & [[rhbug:1208838|1208838]] | ||
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! colspan="2" | Sans | |||
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! rowspan="2" | I | |||
! rowspan="2" | BI | |||
! rowspan="2" | Other | |||
! rowspan="2" | Latin | |||
! rowspan="2" | Greek | |||
! rowspan="2" | Cyrillic | |||
! rowspan="2" | Other | |||
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== Caveats == | == Caveats == | ||
# | # Alexander is packaged upstream along with [[Gdouros_Anaktoria_fonts|Anaktoria]], [[Gdouros_Aroania_fonts|Aroania]], [[Gdouros_Asea_fonts|Asea]] and [[Gdouros_Avdira_fonts|Avdira]] as a unit or family called "TextFonts". Perhaps we should consider a name change in the future. | ||
# The font covers Cyrillic by 41.41% (as reported by ttfcoverage). | |||
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== Additional information == | == Additional information == | ||
There is a character repertoire preview of Alexander (and the other TextFonts fonts) at the project's homepage [http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/Textfonts.pdf]. | |||
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Latest revision as of 06:55, 22 April 2016
A Greek typeface inspired by Alexander Wilson
Description
A text typeface using the Greek letters designed by Alexander Wilson (1714-1786), a Scottish doctor, astronomer, and typefounder, who established a typefoundry in Glasgow in 1744. The type was especially designed for an edition of Homer’s epics, published in 1756-8 by Andrew and Robert Foulis, printers to the University of Glasgow. A modern revival, Wilson Greek, was designed by Matthew Carter in 1995. Peter S. Baker is also using Wilson’s Greek type in his Junicode font for medieval scholars (2007).
Latin and Cyrillic are based on a Garamond typeface. The font covers the Windows Glyph List, IPA Extensions, Greek Extended, Ancient Greek Numbers, Byzantine and Ancient Greek Musical Notation, various typographic extras and several Open Type features (Case-Sensitive Forms, Small Capitals, Subscript, Superscript, Numerators, Denominators, Fractions, Old Style Figures, Historical Forms, Stylistic Alternates, Ligatures).
It was created by George Douros.
Characteristics
| Homepage | Format & features | License | Review reference | Koji page | pkgdb page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts; Textfonts | TTF | Public Domain | 532816 & 1208838 | gdouros-alexander-fonts | gdouros-alexander-fonts |
| Style | Faces | Scripts | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sans | Serif | Other | R | B | I | BI | Other | Latin | Greek | Cyrillic | Other | ||
| Variable | Monospace | Variable | Monospace | ||||||||||
| ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ||||||||||
Caveats
- Alexander is packaged upstream along with Anaktoria, Aroania, Asea and Avdira as a unit or family called "TextFonts". Perhaps we should consider a name change in the future.
- The font covers Cyrillic by 41.41% (as reported by ttfcoverage).
Additional information
There is a character repertoire preview of Alexander (and the other TextFonts fonts) at the project's homepage [1].
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