CL Fonts: A Font Package for Latinists

Because there has been no high-quality, inexpensive typeface designed specifically for the needs of Latin teachers and scholars, CAES decided to sponsor the production of this package. It contains GaramondLatin, a professionally produced typeface that provides macrons, brevia, apices/stress marks, common inscriptional characters, characters for printing scanned poetry, and a few medieval and religious symbols. Click here to see a .jpg filethat shows all the characters. Both True Type and Type 1 (for use with AdobeType Manager) fonts are included.

In addition, keyboard drivers for Windows 95/98/2000 and the Mac OS are provided, as well as suggestions for ways to access the characters using Windows 3.1.

New in version 2 are the true bold, italic, and bold italic fonts. Now that all four weights are available, GaramondLatin can be used to produce truly professional looking copy. In addition, we have improved the design of a few characters and have added a keyboard driver for Windows 2000.

System requirements: any version of Windows 3.1 or more recent, or Mac OS 6.05 or more recent.

If you have comments or suggestions, email the chairperson of the font project, David Perry, at perryd@telocity.com .If you are interested in learning more about fonts and related issues that are of concern to classicists and other scholars, visit David’s web page at http://members.telocity.com/~perryd/ .

The full version of CL Fonts, Release 2 contains the font files (regular, bold, italic, and bold italic), the keyboard drivers, and a detailed manual.Both individual and site licenses are available; the sitelicense allows each Latin teacher who regularly works in a school that haspurchased a site license to install the fonts on one machine at home. The full version may be obtained using our order form. Click here to open the order form; print it, fill it out, and mail it together with your check (we regret that we are unable to accept purchase orders).

A shareware version is also available, containing only the regularweight font and basic instructions. You may evaluate the shareware version for thirty days; after thattime, you must either remove it from your system or upgrade to the full version. The Windows shareware version can be downloaded here, andthe Macintosh shareware version from this link. The shareware version comes as a self-extracting archive; save it to your hard disk, then double-click on it and it will unpack the files for you. Then follow the installation instructions.

The Macintosh version requires System 6.0.5 or later to use the TrueType font, or Adobe Type Manager installed to use the PostScript version. You will also need StuffIt Expander to expand the compressed file.

If you don't have StuffIt Expander, you can download it for free from www.aladdinsys.com/expander The CL Fonts package contains a text file that provides basic installation instructions, plus the full manual in Microsoft Word 5.1 format.

Dr. Ilja Pfeijffer of the University of Leiden has created a metrical font for scholars and advanced students of Greek and Latin. Anaxiphorminx is a metrical font designed for advanced work in Greek and Latin metrics. It was created on the Macintosh by Dr. Pfeijffer, was converted to Windows True Type format by David Perry, and is posted here with Dr. Pfeijffer’s permission.

Download the Windows version of Anaxiphorminx. (This self extractingZIP file contains the True Type font and the documentation in Microsoft Word95 format.)