Alfios Font

Alfios family consisting of 4 fonts
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Author's note

Alfios by George Douros of Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts is a free high-contrast serif font with stately proportions and a distinctly inscriptional bearing. Long, fine serifs sharpen its broad, upright letterforms.

Book covers are its clearest setting, especially for classical studies, museum programs, and historical exhibition graphics, where the upright forms echo carved titles and formal plaques. In editorial design, it can give section openers, art catalogs, and cultural essays a scholarly voice without resorting to blackletter or decorative excess.

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Copyright notice
Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts; George Douros; 2009
Font family
Alfios
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Alfios
Full font name
Alfios
Name table version
Version 1.01
Postscript font name
Alfios
Trademark notice
Alfios is not a merchandise.
Manufacturer name
Free
Designer
George Douros
Description
Lowercase upright Greek were designed in 1805 by Firmin Didot (1764  1836) and cut by Walfard and Vibert. The typeface, together with a complete printing house, was donated in 1821 to the new Greek state by Didots son, Ambroise Firmin Didot (1790  1876). Lowercase 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 some Open Type features (Numerators, Denominators, Fractions, Old Style Figures, Historical Forms, Stylistic Alternates, Ligatures); it is available in regular, italic, bold and bold italic.

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Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only
MicrosoftUnicode full repertoire

Font details

Created2009-10-01
Revision1
Glyph count1256
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding for permanent installation
Family classOldstyle serifs
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Width typeNormal
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
StyleOblique, italic
Stroke weightBook, text, regular, etc.
PitchNot monospaced
Complete pack contains 4 font weights listed below:
Alfios_R.otf
Alfios_I.otf
Alfios_J.otf
Alfios_B.otf
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