Most of the fonts in the listing below were obtained from
www.areopag.com,
a new Russian-English website with a focus on academic theological studies.
A few of these fonts are shareware, so you can only use them legally for 30
days without registration. I have not personally examined each of these ZIP
files, so I cannot vouch for the integrity of their contents. When I get time,
I will re-divide this listing into fully-free and shareware fonts. If I find
any commercial fonts, I will delete them. E.N.P.
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TekniaGreek
- If you bought the textbook, Basics of Biblical Greek, it
came with similar TrueType Greek font called "Mounce." However, the
Mounce font had a restricted license (from Zondervan), meaning that
you couldn't give it away. So Teknia's founder, Bill Mounce, made a
new font, TekniaGreek, which you can give away for free. He also
improved the font, so that typists can use the very same key
commands on both Mac and Windows computers. Also, if you use
Microsoft Word, this font won't collide with Word's
smartquotes (which happens with the GramCord font).
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Koine Italic
- a pleasant, free italic font for Koine Greek. Haven't tried
it, but since the TekniaGreek font prints in Regular/Bold only,
you might like this italic alternative.
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SIL Greek Font System
- actually, a collection of 6 fonts from the Summer Institute of
Linguistics. Contains Biblical Greek fonts (Regular and Bold), a
collection of rarely used linguistic characters (Regular and Bold),
plus a special Transliteration font of the English alphabet with
diacritical marks and accents (Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold
Italic).
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Textual apparatus characters
- if you have seen the signs and special characters used in the
textual apparatus of the UBS Greek New Testament or the
Novum Testamentum Graece
you will know that these symbols and sigla are fairly hard to
locate. These fonts will let you access the same symbols as used in
the 27th edition of Nestle-Aland. Enjoy!
- Download a font to your PC
- Unzip the compressed ZIP file with your preferred
zip utility
- Go to the Start button, choose Settings -> Control
Panel
- Click the Fonts icon. Drag the font that you unzipped into the Fonts
folder. If necessary, restart Netscape or Internet Explorer. That's it!
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