What is the Lascaris font?
Lascaris is a digital rendition of Janus Lascaris’ type of 1494-1496, one of the earliest extant non-Aldine polytonic Greeks. The accompanying Roman, quirky and rich in color, was modeled on humanist types of late 15th century Florentine incunabula and has been extended to cover Central European, Baltic and Turkish character sets.
With OpenType-aware applications (recommended), users can easily access the full set of abbreviations, ligatures and stylistic alternates of the original type, which – like most early Greek faces – was intended to imitate the handwriting of late Byzantine manuscript copyists. More…
Unfortunately the identity of the punchcutter of this unique Greek face still remains a matter of conjecture.
Lascaris Font families
The Lascaris includes the following font families:
Lascaris Preview
Here is a preview of how Lascaris will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.
Is Lascaris a free to download font?
I'm afraid not. Lascaris is not free to download. You will need to pay for it with your hard earn money.
Most fonts that we feature on PimpMyFonts.com is a premium font. We do have a Free Fonts category where we showcase all of the best free fonts that you can download.
Trust me when I say, don't waste your time searching for a free download of Lascaris. You will not find a link anywhere.
It is highly unlikely that you'll be able to find Lascaris for free. You might see a few websites that will say "Free Download" of Lascaris font, but these are just attempts to get you to click on a link which will either take you to an ad landing page or you risk getting viruses on your computer. In the rare occasion that you do find a free download for Lascaris remember that it's illegal to use a font if you didn't pay for it!
If you really want Lascaris and you want to truly own it the legal and safe way, then click here to visit the download and purchase page on MyFonts.com. Here you will be able to obtain the proper license. The designer and publisher deserves to be paid for their work, as they have put in the hours and the creativity to produce such an amazing font. Good luck with your purchase and future use of this font. :)
