alpha/greek font

[jen0dorf]

Hi

does anyone know where I can get the greek alphabet ?

I need the Alpha (lowercase) ie "fish shape".

thanks

Ian

[stratocast]

Hope this helps.

[jen0dorf]

Thanks after lunch I'll have a look. I'm trying to recreate the "alpha" to use as part of a logo for a charity

cheers

Ian

[The Alien]

http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/greek.html
α

It's supposed to work if you type ALT+945, but that doesn't work for me :shrug:
Just copy & paste it in Xara

(Also, the greek letters look very abstract in Verdana, so use another font )

[Soquili]

If you use one of Windows Open Type fonts you can get the lower case Greek alpha by hold down the Alt key and using the numeric keypad and entering 0945. Windows 2000 and newer requires 4 digits to be entered for a character.

The fonts available on the forum produce the ± symbol, which is also what is produced using a Windows True Type font.

If you use the Windows Symbol font and type a lower case a you will also get a very nice looking Greek lower case Alpha.

[stratocast]

Yes, it is frustrating that you cannot use the character codes above 255 in Windows or rather you can use them, but you don't know what you are going to get above 255.

The Symbol font is handy, but you are stuck with it if you use it. I occasionally have a use for Greek letters in various typefaces, so I made the alpha.xar file which contains the Greek alphabet in Arial and I can change the font to any other that contains Greek letters.

Of course it's still a copy and paste job. If I need a lot of Greek, then I change my keyboard mapping and use a suitable Greek font ...or better still get one of my Greek friends to do it on their computer.