Avdira Font

Avdira family consisting of 4 fonts
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Author's note

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.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts; George Douros; 2009
Font family
Avdira
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Avdira
Full font name
Avdira
Name table version
Version 1.01
Postscript font name
Avdira
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 count2702
Units per Em2048
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:
Avdira_R.otf
Avdira_B.otf
Avdira_I.otf
Avdira_J.otf
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