10.11 Fonts supporting Latin and polytonic Greek
The Greek Font Society (GFS), a nonprofit organization in Greece devoted to improving Greek digital typography, made a larger number of fonts with support for the Greek language publicly available. Antonis Tsolomitis and others adapted several of them for use with pdfTEX. Besides support for polytonic Greek, some of these fonts also contain a full set of Latin glyphs— those have been shown already in the previous sections. If you are primarily interested in typesetting in polytonic Greek, then a few more GFS fonts exist that support only the Greek language.
Some of the fonts from the previous sections also offer polytonic Greek in addition to Latin, and for a quick comparison all of them are shown here once more with a short sample text exhibiting English and Greek together (and bold, italic, and small capitals if available). Small capitals are often not implemented for Greek letters (even if available for Latin), and in some cases only characters without diacritics are available.
The standard encoding for Greek is called LGR and listed in this way in the tables throughout this chapter, but note that not all fonts that claim to support this encoding offer polytonic Greek; some provide only basic glyphs without diacritics. Such fonts are not listed below.
10.11.1 Serif designs
Alegreya is fairly complete so can serve as a sample for the different font faces.