Greek Typewriter Font

Question

I want to use a greek typewriter font. So far I can't manage to find any font of that kind. Can someone tell me where I can find one?

Answer 1

I know at least three of them, that can be used quite easily with fontspec and XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX: Microsoft's Consolas and Courier New, and DejaVu Sans Mono. They all have monotoniko and polytoniko characters, that you may enter directly if you have a suitable keyboard.

Here is a demo. Note that Courier New seems to have problems with polyglossia (‘No Greek script loaded for the current font’), so I loaded babel:

\usepackage{fontspec}

\setmainfont{Minion Pro}
\setsansfont{Myriad Pro}
\setmonofont{Courier New}
%
%\usepackage{polyglossia}
%\setdefaultlanguage{greek}
\usepackage[greek]{babel}

\usepackage{array, tabularx}
\renewcommand\arraystretch{2}
\setlength\parindent{0pt}

    \begin{document}
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{>{\ttfamily}lX}
Minion Pro: & \textbf{Πυθαγόρειο Θεώρημα}\newline
Εν τοις ορθογωνίοις τριγώνοις το από της την ορθήν γωνίαν υποτεινούσης πλευράς τετράγωνον ίσον εστί τοις από των την ορθήν γωνίαν περιεχουσών πλευρών τετραγώνοις. \\

Myriad Pro: & \sffamily \textbf{Πυθαγόρειο Θεώρημα} \newline
Εν τοις ορθογωνίοις τριγώνοις το από της την ορθήν γωνίαν υποτεινούσης πλευράς τετράγωνον ίσον εστί τοις από των την ορθήν γωνίαν περιεχουσών πλευρών τετραγώνοις.\\

Courier New: & \ttfamily
\textbf{Πυθαγόρειο Θεώρημα} \newline
Εν τοις ορθογωνίοις τριγώνοις το από της την ορθήν γωνίαν υποτεινούσης πλευράς τετράγωνον ίσον εστί τοις από των την ορθήν γωνίαν περιεχουσών πλευρών τετραγώνοις\\

DejaVu Sans Mono: & \fontspec{DejaVu Sans Mono} \textbf{Πυθαγόρειο Θεώρημα} \newline
Εν τοις ορθογωνίοις τριγώνοις το από της την ορθήν γωνίαν υποτεινούσης πλευράς τετράγωνον ίσον εστί τοις από των την ορθήν γωνίαν περιεχουσών πλευρών τετραγώνοις\\

Consolas: & \fontspec{Consolas}\textbf{Πυθαγόρειο Θεώρημα} \newline
Εν τοις ορθογωνίοις τριγώνοις το από της την ορθήν γωνίαν υποτεινούσης πλευράς τετράγωνον ίσον εστί τοις από των την ορθήν γωνίαν περιεχουσών πλευρών τετραγώνοις

\end{tabularx}

Answer 2

If xelatex or lualatex is an option for you, you can try TeX Gyre Cursor, which is a free Courier clone with greek support or Courier New which looks even more like a typewriter face. I don't know how to get the later one, since it was already installed on my PC, so it probably comes with Win 7 or Office. Here is an example (I don't speek or write greek, so this is some random text from wikipedia):

% !TeX program=lualatex
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmonofont{TeX Gyre Cursor}
\newfontfamily\ttdifferent{Courier New}

\def\test{Some english words for comparison.
Η σύγχρονη αγγλική γλώσσα, η οποία μερικές φορές χαρακτηρίζεται ως η πρώτη επιστήμης, των επιχειρήσεων, της πολιτικής και της διπλωματίας, της ψυχαγωγίας, της αεροναυτιλίας και της}

\begin{document}
\ttfamily\test

\ttdifferent\test

\end{document}

Answer 3

Amazingly, this comes built into TeX!

\documentclass{article}

\renewcommand*\rmdefault{\ttdefault}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[greek,english]{babel}

\begin{document}
Knuth really planned ahead, since he included a typewriter Greek font
as part of the Computer Modern Typewriter series. 
And now you can use Unicode input:

\textgreek{Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, 
καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος.} ---Jn 1:1

\end{document}

Answer 4

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[greek,english]{babel}

\begin{document}
Let's see some typewriter greek:
\begin{otherlanguage}{greek}
\texttt{Oper Edei Deixai.}
\end{otherlanguage}
\end{document}

Answer 5

If you use xetex or luatex, then Frederic Goudy’s Remington Typewriter font (to be precise, only the italic is Goudy’s), in the Pro version published by Lanston, seems to have what you need for both monotonic and polytonic Greek. You can preview the glyphs at www.myfonts.com/fonts/lanston/ltc-remington-typewriter/. The italic has only a little Greek, but the upright seems complete.

The version of Courier from ParaType also supports polytonic Greek: preview the glyphs at www.myfonts.com/fonts/paratype/courier/.

Answer 6

It is not immediately apparent which fonts support Cyrillic and Greek, but you can find a fairly wide assortment of excellent fonts with broad language support if you subscribe to Typekit.

See e.g. the Typewriter Fonts list

Typekit is a pay service, but you will be supporting typographers. :)

Some of the fonts on Typekit may be licensed for free elsewhere e.g. Anonymous Pro.