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| classifications = [[Serif#Old Style|Old-style]]

| creator = Peter S. Baker

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| license = [[SIL Open Font License|OFL]]

| sample = [[Image:Junicode sample.svg|240px|Junicode sample text]]

| latest_release_date = {{release date and age|20242025|068|0322}} (2.208218)

| creationdate = 2001|

|}}

'''Junicode''' ("Junius-Unicode") is a [[Free and open-source software|free and open-source]] ([[SIL Open Font License]]) [[Serif#Old-style|old-style serif]] [[typeface]] developed by [[Peter S. Baker]] of the [[University of Virginia]]. T‌he design is based on a 17th-century typeface used in [[Oxford]], [[England]].

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==Design==

[[Image:Garamond junicode caslon.png|thumb|right|250px|A comparison between (1) Adobe Garamond Pro, (2) Junicode, (3) Adobe Caslon Pro]]

T‌he designs of the Junicode roman characters are based on a 17th-century typeface design used at the [[Oxford University Press]], also known as Clarendon Press. Peter Baker based the Junicode roman design on those used in [[George Hickes (divine)|George Hickes]]' ''Linguarum Vett. Septentrionalium T‌hesaurus'' (1703–1705), naming the typeface Junicode ("Junius Unicode") after [[Franciscus Junius (the younger)|Franciscus Junius]], who had commissioned the original typeface used for the Anglo-Saxon texts in that volume, "Pica Saxon".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/archive/OEN40_1.pdf|author=Peter S. Baker|year=2006|title=Typing in Old English since 1967: A Brief History|work=[[Old English Newsletter]] Online|at=Volume 40.1|access-date=2015-07-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=httphttps://junicode.sourceforge.net/design.html|title=Design and History of Junicode (@ Junicode's SourceForge page)|access-date=2015-07-14}}</ref> T‌he designs represent an intermediate stage between earlier 16th century typefaces (such as [[Garamond]]) and later 18th century typefaces (such as [[Caslon]]). T‌he Junicode roman character design shares a number of features with these earlier and later typefaces.

Junicode has an individual [[Greek alphabet|Greek]] typeface, Foulis Greek. T‌he design is a traditional revival as well. It is based on the Greek Double Pica cut by [[Alexander Wilson (astronomer)|Alexander Wilson]] (c. 1714–1786), a Scottish [[physician|doctor]], [[astronomer]], and typefounder. Wilson's typeface was used in 1756–1758 for a renowned edition of [[Homer]]'s epics (the [[Iliad]] and the [[Odyssey]]),<ref name="BrownMcDougall2011">{{cite book|author1=Stephen Brown|author2=Warren McDougall|title=T‌he Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 2: Enlightenment and Expansion 1707-1800|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QYxvAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT86|date=30 November 2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-5095-8|page=86}}</ref><ref name="Vogel2013">{{cite web|last1=Vogel|first1=David|title=October 16: Alexander Wilson|url=http://designersalmanac.com/2013/10/16/october-16-alexander-wilson/|website=T‌he Designer's Almanac|access-date=30 January 2015|date=16 October 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150130192529/http://designersalmanac.com/2013/10/16/october-16-alexander-wilson/|archive-date=30 January 2015}}</ref> printed by [[Robert Foulis (printer)|Robert Foulis]] and [[Andrew Foulis]] of the Foulis Publishing House and printers to the [[University of Glasgow]]. T‌he characters previously included in Junicode font, since version 1.000, moved into a separate font.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/junicode/files/junicode/junicode-1.000/|title=Release Name: junicode-1.000|date=2017-09-18|access-date=2017-09-30}}</ref>

==Origins and uses==

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*[https://psb1558.github.io/Junicode-font/ Junicode 2 website]

*[https://github.com/psb1558/Junicode-font/ Junicode 2 development site (Github)]

*[httphttps://junicode.sourceforge.net/ Junicode 1 website]

*[http://www.engl.virginia.edu/people/psb6m Peter S. Baker], University of Virginia staff page

*[http://mufi.info MUFI font page]