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Junicode's [[Greek alphabet|Greek]] typeface design is a traditional revival as well. It is based on the Greek Double Pica cut by 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=http://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|accessdate=30 January 2015|date=16 October 2013}}</ref> printed by [[Robert Foulis (printer)|Robert Foulis]] and [[Andrew Foulis]] of the Foulis Publishing House and printers to the [[University of Glasgow]].

==Feature set==

Junicode exists in regular, italic, bold and bold italic styles, with the regular style having the largest character set. Regular and bold styles have [[small caps]] and all styles have [[Swash (typography)|swash]] alternates, although not a complete set of italic swash capitals.

==Origins and uses==

The Junicode font was developed especially for medievalists, due to the need for a font to cover the large number of special characters and ligatures used in medieval [[manuscript]]s. The font has complete support for the [[Medieval Unicode Font Initiative]] version 1.0, and nearly complete support for version 2.0.

Despite the specialization of Junicode for the needs of medievalists, the font is quite complete and supports a large number of Unicode characters. In the regular style, over 3000 characters are available. This makes Junicode useful for a wide range of languages that utilize the [[Latin alphabet]], including scholarly texts and publications that require special [[diacritics]] not traditionally found in conventional fonts. It exists in regular, italic, bold and bold italic styles, with the regular style having the largest character set. Regular and bold styles have [[small caps]] and all styles have [[Swash (typography)|swash]] alternates, although not a complete set of italic swash capitals.

Junicode has a very wide linespacing in many applications (it was designed for use in [[LaTeX]], which may limit its use for general-purpose typesetting.

==Availability and development==

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The Junicode font is developed in the [[FontForge]] typeface editing program. The font includes TrueType [[font hinting|hinting]], and the hinting instructions are developed in [[XML]] files used by the [[Xgridfit]] application, which developers use to generate low-level TrueType hinting instructions.

==See also==

[[Bembo#Digitisations and derivatives|Cardo]], another open-source serif font designed for academic users.

==Notes==

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