Greek?

[LeaVerou]

Thank you so much for making this wonderful typeface!

I’m making a free app to generate tracing sheets for kids learning to write, and I thought it would be perfect for it. Is there any chance you may be planning to add Greek glyphs? Given the extensive character set, you already have glyphs for a lot of them!

I took a look at the entire character set to see what would actually need to be drawn from scratch, and what is just a matter of remapping existing glyphs:

Uppercase:

• Α → same glyph as Latin A
• Β → same glyph as Latin B
• Γ → same glyph as Г
• Δ 🆕
• Ε → same glyph as Latin E
• Ζ → same glyph as Latin Z
• Η → same glyph as Latin H
• Θ → same glyph as Ө
• Ι → same glyph as Latin I
• Κ → same glyph as Latin K
• Λ → can be the same glyph as Л (normally not the same, but the letterform you have works fine for both)
• Μ → same glyph as Latin M
• Ν → same glyph as Latin N
• Ξ 🆕
• Ο → same glyph as Latin O
• Π → same glyph as П
• Ρ → same glyph as Latin P
• Σ → you can reuse the glyph from ∑
• Τ → same glyph as Latin T
• Υ → same glyph as Latin Y
• Φ → you already have Ф
• Χ → same glyph as Latin X
• Ψ 🆕
• Ω → you already have Ω

Lowercase:

• α → the glyph from Latin a works here
• β 🆕
• γ 🆕
• δ 🆕
• ε 🆕
• ζ 🆕
• η → ⚠️ can reuse Latin n (ideally it needs a descender, but it's a common handwriting style to not have one)
• θ 🆕
• ι → can use the glyph from ı (dotless i)
• κ → you can reuse the glyph from к
• λ → ⚠️ can flip the glyph from y, that’s a valid way of handwriting a λ
• μ → you already have µ
• ν → can reuse the Latin v
• ξ 🆕
• ο → can reuse the glyph from Latin o
• π → you already have π
• ρ → ⚠️ can reuse р (straight line is not great for a ρ, but recognizable)
• σ 🆕
• τ → can reuse the glyph from т
• υ → can reuse the glyph for u (normally not the same, but here it works)
• φ → you already have ф
• χ → ⚠️ ideally it needs the descenders, but in a pinch you can reuse the glyph from Latin x, it's a common handwriting style to not have descenders.
• ψ 🆕
• ω 🆕

Overall, it would take designing 3 new uppercase glyphs and 10 new lowercase ones (ideally 14).

I’m a native Greek speaker, so happy to answer any questions and help in any way I can!

[arrowtype]

Hey @LeaVerou, thanks so much for this amazing guide! I have no immediate plans to add Greek, but it’s amazing to realize that it’s way more within reach than I had realized. I’ll consider this further, and try to see if there’s a way I can fit it in.

[LeaVerou]

Thanks for considering it! 🙏🏼