The sudden and unexpected proliferation of Greek fonts.
What in the name of god is going on?
Back in 2017, I was trying to find a couple of Greek display typefaces for my library since I’m Greek(-Cypriot) and it was almost a given that I’d need to have a couple at hand anyway.
When I searched for ‘greek fonts’ on MyFonts and, later, Creative Market, what I got was a bunch of irrelevant results and a couple of actual Greek typefaces, one of which—Averta—is still one of my favorites, in any language. However, I’m pretty sure that no display typefaces came up.
Fast forward to today and while I was going through Creative Market’s fonts section, with the filter set to Recent to see wassup, I came upon a font with a Greek-sounding name and a Greek hero graphic. “Hmm,” thought the tiny angel sitting on my left shoulder, “maybe this is an actual Greek display font.” “Are you ducking sloopid?” replied the little devil sitting on my right shoulder (my little devil doesn’t like to swear).
This was followed by more searches and me slithering down a weird and wonderful rabbit hole of real-Greek, faux-Greek (some dickhole designers think that Cyrillic and Greek characters are the same thing. Newsflash, asshats: they are not) and awesome-Greek display typefaces and their actually-Greek designers.
Here are some of my favorites.
Kleftis Erotas script
Why should I care? I’m not Greek.
I didn’t say you should. But also, shut the fuck up because these typefaces also include Latin characters and they look great.
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