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I fancied a challenge, so I had a go at the Greek and Coptic set. Unfortunately I have no knowledge of the language and, therefore, am unable to judge these results. I would be really grateful if anyone who reads Greek could comment on how this looks. -
Info:Created on 6th August 2013. Last edited on 6th March 2014.
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Unfortunately I have no knowledge of the language and, therefore, am unable to judge these results.
I would be really grateful if anyone who reads Greek could comment on how this looks.
But a curve is a curve. Speaking strictly as non-native, the upsilon character might be a bit narrow though.
It's a fine looking sans in any case. Might as well add the Latin character set.
- Γ could have a slightly longer arm
- Κ, Υ & Τ could be a bit wider (especially upsilon)
- Ψ's crossbar can be closer the vertical middle
- α can be a bit thinner
- β's right half should look more like a B than a ß
- δ's bowl should be proportionately bigger than the ascender
- yups i agree with umbreon η can be thinner
- θ should occupy the ascender
- ψ can have a longer vertical
whew that was a lot. haha but overall this is amazing and some of the lowercase forms are beautiful especially the more complex ones haha like ζ, ξ, ς, σ, ω. i can't offer comments about the archaeic greek or coptic though >
@Umbreon126 and 3moDuDe: That's exctly the kind of information I was looking for ... many thanks. Now I can go back to this and update it.
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-The right 'leg' of letter π seems too straight.
-'Tails' of ζ,ξ,ς is too winding, stiff tails are looking good.
-ε should be more like a flipped 3 than an curved-side E. Or intentionally made that way?
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Yeah, hope this helps. What do you think?
BTW, great stuff here! 10/10
Cheers for the added input sarreyn and cablecomputer ... I'll have a look at those glyphs tomorrow.
@sarreyn The Unicode Consortium used to have the idea that Coptic and Greek could be put in the same space, but they've changed that and now Coptic has it's own special space in "extended" (not really, but from a FS point of view it is) Unicode
RM Greek somewhat resembles 'Core Sans NS' so I used it for my rough reference to decide what the letters should be.
I think I have gone far enough with this one (apart from tidying up a few curves here and there).
You should add U+037F Greek Capital Letter Yot. It is the only closed space with Unicode on the boxes that appear, since VERY few fonts have it, so it'd be nice if I could have a nice, basic font using the Yot.
@X2A3Q: Sorry, but I don't think I will be coming back to this font any more - it was an experiment and I have finished it as far as it goes.
Add a capital final sigma and numbers!
ε looks like a epsilon symbol supposed to be reversed 3 but I like the font
10/10
You did a nice job with it :)
That looks really good.... I'm not a native speaker, so I can't comment that much on the letters...
But a line is a line. It is fantastic
(sorry thalamic for copying a part of your comment)
Καταπληκτική η γραμματοσειρά που έφτιαξες! Check it on the preview to check if there are glyphs with tonos.
Translation: The font you did was amazing!
Note: I don't speak Greek, so it's all greek to me. Literally.
To see if there are glyphs with tonos*
@NewCurvenBig you can see that there are, in fact, characters with tonos, as well as the dieresis thing and the letters that have both (dialytika tonos)
Thank you @Ivqille
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