Avdira by George Douros is a free serif font with broad classical capitals and a softer, more informal lowercase. Rounded serifs, gently swelling strokes, and generous curves give the lettering a bookish character without looking rigid.
Designers working on literary or heritage-minded projects could use it for book covers, museum materials, and cultural event posters, where its formal structure still feels approachable. In editorial design, the capitals can frame feature titles, while the lowercase brings warmth to introductory text.
Upright is based on the lowercase Greek letters in the typeface used by Demetrios Damilas for the edition of Isocrates, published in Milan in 1493. A digital revival, was prepared by Ralph P. Hancock, in his Milan (Mediolanum) font. Italic Greek were designed in 1802 by Richard Porson (1757 1808) and cut by Richard Austin. They were first used by Cambridge University Press in 1810. Capitals, Latin and Cyrillic, as well as the complete bold weights, have been designed in an attempt to create a well-balanced font. The font covers the Windows Glyph List, Greek Extended, various typographic extras and is available in regular, italic, bold and bold italic. The regular style of the font also covers IPA Extensions, Ancient Greek Numbers, Byzantine and Ancient Greek Musical Notation and several Open Type features (Case-Sensitive Forms, Small Capitals, Subscript, Superscript, Numerators, Denominators, Fractions, Old Style Figures, Historical Forms, Stylistic Alternates, Ligatures).
Información ampliada de la fuente
Plataformas compatibles
PlataformaCodificación
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semántica
MacintoshRomano
MicrosoftSólo unicode BMP
MicrosoftUnicode - repertorio completo
Detalles de la fuente
Creada2009-10-01
Revisión1
Número de glifos2702
Unidades por em2048
Permisos de incrustaciónIncrustación para la instalación permanente
Clase de familiaSerifas antiguas
GrosorMedia (normal)
AnchuraMediana (normal)
Tipo de anchuraNormal
Estilo MacNegrita
DirecciónSólo glifos muy de izquierda a derecha + contiene los neutrales
Naturaleza del patrónOrdinario
EstiloItálico
Grosor del trazoNormal
EspaciadoNo monoespaciado
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