Below you will find Windows System Requirements, Macintosh System Requirements, Font Samples showing each font, links to Related Software, and Testimonials of our users.

LaserGreek II for Windows

Easily type classical and Biblical Greek with all accents and breathing marks using a logical, phonetic keyboard input. For example, type alpha on the 'a' key and add the smooth breathing by typing the 'j' key. The breathing mark is automatically placed over the previously-typed alpha. (This layout has become a de facto standard among classical and Biblical Greek scholars.)

System Requirements: The TrueType® fonts install into Microsoft® Windows Vista, XP, 2000, or NT, and work with all Windows Vista-, XP-, 2000-, and NT-compatible applications that allow the user to select fonts from a font menu. (A previous version for Windows Me, 98, or 95, and a custom version compatible with Windows 3.1 is available by request.) The product includes a User's Manual, keyboard layout chart(s), and Character Code Table(s) showing every character in the font(s). The included keyboard driver(s) allows access to four characters per key (instead of the normal two) and alternate keyboard layouts. All documentation is in PDF format, available on the Windows Start menu, and can be viewed and/or printed using Adobe Reader. The fonts will print to any printer at the highest quality allowed by your printer.

A custom version (fonts only) is available for Linux, but Linux users must provide alternate keyboard input for characters in the extended character set. If you are ordering for Linux be sure to select the Linux box on the Order Form.

Cost: US$ 99.95, or $50 as an enhancement to Modern Greek or Modern Greek II, or $50 when purchased together with LaserGreek as LaserGreek Professional. Order

Do you need to upgrade? Check the current version number and a Release History.

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LaserGreek II for Macintosh

Easily type classical and Biblical Greek with all accents and breathing marks using a logical, phonetic keyboard input. For example, type alpha on the 'a' key and add the smooth breathing by typing the 'j' key. The breathing mark is automatically placed over the previously-typed alpha.

System Requirements: Works with any Macintosh, including the new Intel-based Macs. The font is typed using the US keyboard. The product includes a User's Manual and keyboard layout charts.

Cost: US$ 99.95, or $50 as an enhancement to Modern Greek or Modern Greek II, or $50 when purchased together with LaserGreek as LaserGreek Professional. Order

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LaserGreek II Samples: All of the fonts contain the same character set as shown below for GraecaUBS, except for the OdysseaExtras and HellenicaExtras fonts, which include extra characters and symbols for Greek epigraphical studies and textual studies. Continue down the page for samples of all the fonts you will receive in LaserGreek II.

GraecaUBS, a light text font similar to Rahlf's Septuaginta font. The italic style matches the style of the regular text of the UBS Greek New Testament, 1st through 3rd editions, and was created at their request for future editions. GraecaUBS is provided in plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic styles.

GreekSans II, a Helvetica®- (Arial®-) style sans serif Greek font with classical accents and letters. It is provided in plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic styles.

Hellenica, a new font optimized for classical Greek with similarities in style to the SymbolGreek® font found in the original LaserGreek product. Hellenica is provided in plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic styles.

HellenicaExtras, a Hellenica-style font that provides extra characters for epigraphical and textual studies. These extra characters are found only in HellenicaExtras and OdysseaExtras, and are not in any other of the LaserGreek or LaserGreek II fonts. HellenicaExtras is provided in plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic styles.

Accents in HellenicaExtras

Overstriking accents in HellenicaExtras

Punctuation and other characters in HellenicaExtras

Odyssea, a standard classical Greek typeface. Odyssea is provided in plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic styles.

OdysseaExtras, an Odyssea-style font that provides extra characters for epigraphical and textual studies. These extra characters are found only in OdysseaExtras and HellenicaExtras, and are not in any other of the LaserGreek or LaserGreek II fonts. OdysseaExtras is provided in plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic styles.

Accents in OdysseaExtras

Overstriking accents in OdysseaExtras

Punctuation and other characters in HellenicaExtras

OdysseaUBS, the font style of the bold text in the UBS Greek New Testament, 1st through 3rd editions.

Payne, an Attic-style Greek typeface. Payne is provided in plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic styles.

PayneCondensed, a slightly condensed form of Payne, is provided in plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic styles.

TeubnerLS, a standard Biblical and classical Greek font. It is modeled after the classic Teubner design, but modified for consistency. It is provided in plain and bold.

TeubnerLSC, like TeubnerLS, but with a crescent moon-shaped circumflex. It is provided in plain and bold.

TeubnerVertical, a vertical form of the classic Teubner design, but modified for consistency. It is provided in plain and bold.

TeubnerVerticalC, like TeubnerVertical, but with a crescent moon-shaped circumflex. It is provided in plain and bold.

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You may also be interested in the following related products:

For modern Greek fonts see Modern Greek and Modern Greek II.

Also available is LaserGreek, containing six additional Greek fonts. LaserGreek II costs $99.95 separately, or $50 when purchased with LaserGreek. These two products together are called LaserGreek Professional on the order form and cost $149.95.

LaserGreek II is also available as part of LaserGreek, Hebrew & Phonetics, a discounted package that provides five of our most popular products at half price ($249.95). (Note: Additional shipping charges apply to LaserGreek, Hebrew & Phonetics for Macintosh. You will be charged 2 shipping or email units.)

LaserGreek II is also available as part of our Scholar's Packs, discounted packages that provide Bible study products at greatly reduced prices.

Also available is a compatible font product providing faithful representations of the original hand of important early codices or papyri of the New Testament and distinctive character forms of inscriptions from that period. WashingtonianusLS, part of our New Testament Manuscripts Font Collection, includes two fonts providing a faithful representation of the original hand of Codex Washingtonianus.

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Here's what others are saying about LaserGreek and LaserGreek II:

"I am so impressed with the beauty of the fonts!"
Christine Calfas, Portland, OR

"Both visually and in print, in one word, it works! The optical results of the fonts is VERY satisfactory. Thank you very much! Your devoted"
PD Dr. Xavier Tremblay, Universität zu Köln

"I am quite pleased with your wonderful fonts. On my Macintosh machines I have been using your Greek and Hebrew fonts for over ten years. It is for me, a New Testament scholar, a great pleasure to use your really beautiful fonts. This time I bought the same fonts for Windows. I'm equally happy with them."
Prof. Ichiro Sudo, Seinan Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan

"The LaserGreek II fonts are the BEST fonts ever created."
Michael Straus, Columbia University, New York

"We are very happy with the Greek and Hebrew fonts recently purchased from you. We are using these fonts to publish our journal, Reformed Theological Review."
Sandra Searle, Administrator, Reformed Theological Review, Australia

"The Linguist's Software Greek fonts work without any glitches. They are beautiful! Really lovely fonts!"
Professor T. David Gordon, Grove City College, Grove City, Pennsylvania

"Superb ... elegantly intelligent while easy to use. Bravo! [I am] utterly delighted ... vastly superior to any mode of entering Greek I have previously tried (nearly everything possible: Lettrix, Turbofonts, Ibycus, Nota Bene, WordPerfect, etc)."
Prof. John Boswell (deceased), Yale University

"I am a great admirer of your Greek fonts. You have a wonderfully elegant keyboard design -- definitely superior to your competitors, including Greekkeys. Thank you for bringing the old SuperGreek up to date."
Carrie Vandervelde, Department of Classical Studies, University of Richmond, VA

"Above all, congratulations on a successful Greek font layout that actually works and encourages Greek typesetting! Philip B. Payne and his staff have done an excellent job in thinking out how to approach Greek."
Gale Akins, Humble Hills Press, Kalamazoo, MI

"Your Greek fonts are really perfect"
Nikolaos Trunte, Bonn, Germany

"I'm not retained by Linguist's Software (and certainly not by GreekKeys, a cumbersome system that drove me nearly insane when I tried it); but I would like to say, and not for the first time, that for me LaserGreek, in its successive editions, is so far superior to every other Greek font system, in every way, that I can't imagine why it hasn't swept the market. Minimal changes to the American keyboard, and those supremely rational. The virtual abolition of all cumbersome "grouping". Accents, breathings, &c. independent and postpositive. Easy switching between fonts. The sum is that I can type LaserGreek just as fast as Roman--and could do so only a week after installation. What other system can offer that without requiring a large effort of memorization followed by lengthy practice? The benefits were enormous ... sigmas and correlation of platforms is wonderful. I'm both a classicist and a professional author, and use LaserGreek all over the place, for books, articles, editions, you name it."
Peter Green
Professor Emeritus of Classics, U. of Texas at Austin
Editor, Syllecta Classica

"Everything is installing as it should, and I am absorbing all the brilliant things you've done with this software. I am very pleased with how helpful you and your tech support are being and look forward to using this for many years to come. Blessings on you for such a faithful ministry in God's Word!"
Michael Straus, Birmingham, AL

"I want to tell you that we are very happy with LaserGreek II which is by far the best and most beautiful set of Greek characters I have ever seen."
José L. Calvo
Department of Greek Philology
University of Grenada, Spain

"Laser Greek and LaserGreek II are superb. I promote your admirable products incessantly."
Dr. Jan Kalivoda, The Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

"I have been entirely satisfied with the product. Visually they are beautiful fonts and enhance many publications for which I did camera ready copy. Thank you."
Professor Emeritus John Catan, Prescott, AZ

"Thanks very much - LaserGreek installed and works beautifully. I have to say it's extremely user friendly. I really am delighted with the fonts - within 24 hours I am typing almost as quickly in Greek as in English!"
Linda Woodward, Gillingham, Kent, England

"I would like to thank Linguist's Software for your high-quality LaserGreek Pro fonts, beautiful typefaces and easy-to-use keyboard layouts."
Ari Teerimaki, University of Helsinki, Finland

"Thank you also for your Greek fonts, which are finely designed and simple to use even for the computerly illiterate! With best wishes for your continued success."
Archimandrite Ephrem, Monastery of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First, Manchester, England

"The Greek font which I have found most legible is called Payne, named after a biblical scholar. It's one of several fonts in the Linguist's Software LaserGreek II package."
Bruce Prior, Blaine, Washington USA

"Your encoding ... sensible key assignments and accent keys method is better [than] GreekKeys. The font Odyssea looks really nice."
Helma Dik
Department of Classics
University of Chicago

"Yeah! Your new program solved the big problem with Cyrillic! Now I can use both Cyrillic and LaserGreek together. It works! Thank you very much! Thanks a lot for the HellenicaExtras keyboard chart. It's very helpful. Now I am convinced that your Greek fonts seem to be (nearly?) perfect."
Ivo Gottwald, Leipzig, Germany

"I have your Symbol Greek and like it very much. I have a number of your products and consider them to be first-rate."
Don Garlington, Toronto, Ontario

"The fonts are great - thank you."
John K. Tsotsos, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada

"This is a great product....All LaserGreek II characters print perfectly."
Alexander Inglis, Salem, MA

"I thank you for the professional effort that you personally and your company offer to ancient and modern philology."
PhDr. Jan Kalivoda
Institute of Greek and Latin Studies
School of Arts, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic

"I appreciate your very fine product. I cannot imagine life without this software."
Noel H. Mayfield, Memphis, TN

"I love your beautiful Greek fonts, really! Many thanks."
Professor Dr. Alejandro Vigo, Santiago, Chile

"Your LaserGreek I use daily, especially for quotations in abstracts and books of early modern theologians. It is really comfortable."
Prof. Dr. Harm Klueting, Muenster, Germany

"Thanks for your super fonts! You have my permission to quote me on anything that I say about your products. They're super!"
James L. Johns, New College, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

"I'm looking forward to enjoying the upgrade edition of LaserGreek and the LaserGreek II which is new one to me both for Macintosh and Windows. I esteem you for your providing various font software for almost all languages. Best Regards."
Tomu Kunigami, Sapporo, Japan

"Everything is installed and working exactly as you have said and I am a happy camper!! I have written several things that make extensive use of Biblical Greek and some Hebrew."
David R. Dilling, Kensington Theological Academy, Lexington, IN

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Universities who license LaserGreek and LaserGreek II fonts:

Scores of universities and seminaries have licensed LaserGreek, including Cambridge University, Oxford University, King's College London, St. Andrews University, the University of Wales, the University of Zuerich, Mainz University, Ecole Francaise d'Athenes, Bar Ilan University, the University of Victoria (BC), the University of Chicago, the University of California, University of Notre Dame, University of Texas, University of Washington, Southwestern University, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Colorado, Wheaton College, Covenant Seminary, Dallas Theological Seminary, and Fuller Theological Seminary.