TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism

The ATLA Center for Electronic Resources in Theology and Religion has eight public domain fonts available for use by anyone who would like to download them. Three are Hebrew/Aramaic fonts: SPTiberian (the standard Hebrew font), SPDamascus (a thinner font with Palestinian as well as Tiberian vowel points), and SPEzra (a simple fixed-width Hebrew font). There are two Greek fonts: SPIonic (a more complete Greek font) and SPDoric (a simpler, uncial font), and SPAtlantis (a transliteration font that includes diacriticals and other special characters that allow the representation of numerous Indo-European, Semitic, and other langauges - this font is available in both Roman and Italic type).

All of these fonts are TrueType fonts, and each is available in both Macintosh and Windows format. Each font also has associated with it a .readme file that explains the keyboard mapping of the font. The Michigan-Claremont encoding scheme is the basis for the character maps used in the Hebrew/Aramaic and Syriac fonts, and the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae encoding scheme is the basis for the Greek and Coptic fonts.

In the Mac directory, the fonts have been compressed using Stuffit and encoded in ASCII using BinHex (hence the .sit.hqx extension). Fonts in the Windows directory appear in uncompressed - .TIFF, compressed (gzipped) - .TTF.gz, and zipped - .TFF.zip - forms. A gzip utility, which is available in the Windows directory, must be used to uncompress the .gz files.

For more information on the encoding schemes mentioned above see Transliteration Tables for Use in TC.

We hope you can make good use of these fonts. Feel free to send any comments to Jimmy Adair. If you experience difficulties or have any questions please contact Christian Kelm.