Avdira Italic by George Douros of Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts is a free italic serif with pronounced thick-thin contrast and a graceful, forward-moving stance. Its narrow capitals and long, tapered curves look elegant but lively.
Designers working in fashion and cultural publishing will find it suited to magazine covers, exhibition posters, and event invitations, where the sweeping italic shapes lend literary air. These uses share a need for lettering that feels formal yet animated, and the fine strokes also suit boutique packaging built around elegance rather than weight.
Upright is based on the lowercase Greek letters in the typeface used by Demetrios Damilas for the edition of Isocrates, published in Milan in 1493. A digital revival, was prepared by Ralph P. Hancock, in his Milan (Mediolanum) font. Italic Greek were designed in 1802 by Richard Porson (1757 1808) and cut by Richard Austin. They were first used by Cambridge University Press in 1810. Capitals, Latin and Cyrillic, as well as the complete bold weights, have been designed in an attempt to create a well-balanced font. The font covers the Windows Glyph List, Greek Extended, various typographic extras and is available in regular, italic, bold and bold italic. The regular style of the font also covers IPA Extensions, Ancient Greek Numbers, Byzantine and Ancient Greek Musical Notation and several Open Type features (Case-Sensitive Forms, Small Capitals, Subscript, Superscript, Numerators, Denominators, Fractions, Old Style Figures, Historical Forms, Stylistic Alternates, Ligatures).