Royal Greek Typography · Specimen & Ligature Showcase
Each glyph set below is rendered in Grecs du Roi.
The feature name and Unicode range are printed under each card.
Typed Greek stays ordinary polytonic Unicode; OpenType
liga/dlig/rlig/clig
substitute the historical glyph.
no cp · GSUB liga ε + ῖ (U+03B5 U+1FD6)
εἶναι · ἄειδε
GFS Gazis historical ei.per
no cp · GSUB liga/dlig γ + ε + ρ
γερουσια · γέρων
Live GrecsRoi Greek Cursive fusion (liga_ger); historical reference (Commons)
composed κ+α+ὶ · also U+03D7 ϗ / U+03CF Ϗ
καὶ ὁ λόγος
GFS Gazis kai from kappa+alpha+iota
no cp · GSUB liga/dlig μ + ω (U+03BC U+03C9)
μωμὸς · ὀσμωδία
Live GrecsRoi Greek Cursive fusion (liga_mo); historical reference (Commons)
no cp · GSUB liga ο + σ / ο + ς
μέθοδος · θεός
GFS Gazis omicronsigma
no Greek cp · GSUB liga/dlig ο + ὖ + ν
οὖν ἐν ἀρχῇ
Live GrecsRoi Greek Cursive 3-letter fusion; Latin ȣ is a derived cousin. historical reference (Commons)
no cp · GSUB liga/dlig φ + η + σ + ὶ
φησὶ τοῦτο
Live GrecsRoi Greek Cursive four-letter discretionary ligature. historical reference (Commons)
U+03DB ϛ · U+03DA Ϛ
στ → ϛ · numeral 6
Didot supplies small ϛ; Gazis liga also maps σ+τ → Ϛ
U+03D7
ϗ (= καί)
Precomposed kai; GFS Gazis cmap
U+03CF
Ϗ
Gentium Plus unicode-range fallback
U+0222
derived from ου, not Greek
Cardo subset
U+0223
derived from ου, not Greek
Cardo subset
U+A64A
derived from ου, not Greek
Noto Serif subset
U+A64B
derived from ου, not Greek
Noto Serif subset
no single cp · Wikimedia chart
αο · αυ · αι
Conventional minuscule ligature set
no single cp · Wikimedia chart
κα · και
Conventional minuscule ligature set
no single cp · Wikimedia chart
ρρ · ρχ
Conventional minuscule ligature set
no single cp · Wikimedia chart
γγ · γερ
Conventional minuscule ligature set
no single cp · Wikimedia chart
λλ
Gazis also ligates λλ in running text
no single cp · Wikimedia chart
στ · σσ
στ also substitutes to stigma
no single cp · Wikimedia chart
δδ
Conventional minuscule ligature set
no single cp · Wikimedia chart
μω · μν
Conventional minuscule ligature set
no single cp · Wikimedia chart
ττ · στ
Conventional minuscule ligature set
no single cp · Wikimedia chart
ει · εῖ
Matches Gazis ei ligature family
no single cp · Wikimedia chart
ντ · οὖν
Conventional minuscule ligature set
no single cp · Wikimedia chart
ου · υι
Gazis ligates ου and υι
no single cp · Wikimedia chart
ησ · φησὶ
Conventional minuscule ligature set
no single cp · Wikimedia chart
ου · ος · οὖν
Matches Gazis ou / omicronsigma
no single cp · Wikimedia chart
φη · φησὶ
Conventional minuscule ligature set
no single cp · Wikimedia chart
θθ
Conventional minuscule ligature set
no single cp · Wikimedia chart
ππ · πρ
Conventional minuscule ligature set
no single cp · Wikimedia chart
ωμ · μω
Conventional minuscule ligature set
U+03DC Ϝ
conflated with stigma as numeral 6
Archaic letter, not a ligature proper
U+03DF ϟ · U+03E0 Ϡ
numeral 90 · numeral 900
Sidebar “Ligatures” companions on Wikipedia
— Ὅμηρος, Ἰλιάς 1.1–2 · royal-decree pasticheμῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί᾽ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγε᾽ ἔθηκε.
καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺς φησὶ οὖν ὅτι ὁ λόγος μέθοδός ἐστι τῆς ἀληθείας.
“mēnin aeide thea … kai ho basileus phēsi oun …”
“Sing, goddess, the wrath of Achilles son of Peleus… And the king says, therefore, that the word is a method of truth.” Select and copy the Greek: the clipboard holds ordinary polytonic letters, not Private-Use glyphs.
— Seneca, Ep. 9.13Verba volant, scripta manent.
“Spoken words fly, written words remain.”
