Avdira Italic Font

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Author's note

Avdira Italic by George Douros of Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts is a free italic serif with pronounced thick-thin contrast and a graceful, forward-moving stance. Its narrow capitals and long, tapered curves look elegant but lively.

Designers working in fashion and cultural publishing will find it suited to magazine covers, exhibition posters, and event invitations, where the sweeping italic shapes lend literary air. These uses share a need for lettering that feels formal yet animated, and the fine strokes also suit boutique packaging built around elegance rather than weight.

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Copyright notice
Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts; George Douros; 2009
Font family
Avdira
Font subfamily
Italic
Unique subfamily identification
Avdira Italic
Full font name
Avdira Italic
Name table version
Version 1.01
Postscript font name
AvdiraItalic
Trademark notice
Avdira is not a merchandise.
Manufacturer name
Free
Designer
George Douros
Description
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).

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only
MicrosoftUnicode full repertoire

Font details

Created2009-10-01
Revision1
Glyph count1236
Units per Em2048
Embedding rightsEmbedding for permanent installation
Family classModern serifs
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Width typeNormal
Mac styleUnderline
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Italic angle-12
Pattern natureItalic
StyleOblique, italic
Stroke weightBook, text, regular, etc.
PitchNot monospaced
Complete pack contains 4 font weights listed below:
Avdira_I.otf
Avdira_R.otf
Avdira_B.otf
Avdira_J.otf
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