I was using Quizlet flashcard to study Ancient Greek Vocabulary the other day and saw this horribly formatted Greek text:
The Greek font looks terribly uncomfortable, because Quizlet uses the same font for all languages and I certainly don't like it. So I decided to make my own flash card with a much better font (see the Note below) that results something like this:
Note
The new font was inspired by the Zeph fonts invented by the Loeb Classical Library in Harvard University, which did a really good job on publishing Ancient Greek and Latin original texts.
The Zeph fonts are based on 'Porson' Greek according to the information provided by Harvard University Press (HUP). But the Zeph* fonts themselves seem to be custom commissions for HUP for use in Loeb books, which means the fonts are close-sourced1.
The closest font I found, thus, is the GFS Porson for Ancient Greek which ended up being the Greek font I use for the flash cards in this project
To start flashcards locally:
git clone git@github.com:QubitPi/ancient-greek-vocabulary.git
cd ancient-greek-vocabulary
yarn
yarn startTip
The vocabulary is from Dickinson College Commentaries and is processed with a Python script:
cd scripts
python3 greek-core-list-extractor.pyThe output of the script is the vocabulary.js which is loaded when React App starts.
The use and distribution terms for ancient-greek-vocabulary are covered by the Apache License, Version 2.0.
