font-cardo ☆

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Type: Cask | Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025

Links: formulae.brew.sh

Category: Fonts

Tags: font typography academic unicode latin greek

Install: brew install --cask font-cardo

About:
Cardo is a free, open-source font family specifically designed for scholarly and classic texts. It excels in rendering ancient languages like Greek, Hebrew, and Latin, providing comprehensive support for diacritics and special characters. Its design ensures clarity and aesthetic quality for academic publications, digital editions, and linguistic documents.

Key Features:

Comprehensive Unicode support for Greek, Hebrew, and Latin
Designed for high-quality scholarly and classic text rendering
Includes extensive diacritics and special characters
Free and open-source (Open Font License)

Use Cases:

Typesetting academic papers and books in classics or theology
Creating digital editions of ancient texts
Designing websites or documents requiring polytonic Greek or Hebrew

Alternatives:

Noto Serif – Broader Unicode coverage for many scripts, but less specialized for classical typography
Linux Libertine – Another open-source font with good historical language support, but with a different design aesthetic

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