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psb1558 / Elstob-font

A variable font for medievalists
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Greek Alphabet #41

Open YakoYakoYokuYoku opened 3 months ago

YakoYakoYokuYoku commented 3 months ago

This issue is a feature request for the Greek Alphabet to be included. I'm an user of this font and I'm marveled with the excellent work done here. Although one time I wanted to use Greek text with it, but I've noticed that only a few characters, like Delta and Omega, are there solely for mathematical usage. If it's possible to have the rest of the alphabet I'd be glad for.

psb1558 commented 3 months ago

This has been preying on my mind for quite a while. I'm far from expert in Greek, and I'm aware that lots of things in Greek script work very differently from the way they work in Latin. Further, Greek appears to have changed a lot more than Latin over the last few centuries, so that the old models I tend to use to get started on Latin projects aren't suitable for Greek. Still, I know I ought to do it, and there are resources available to help out with it. It will take a while, of course, but here's a down-payment: an experimental alpha designed to harmonize with Elstob's Latin.

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Not very good (yet), but a start.

psb1558 commented 5 hours ago

Have a Greek alphabet roughed in. It still needs lots of work (spacing is horrible, and there is no kerning at all), but I thought I'd leave it here for comment while I go on.

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