Designers
John Hudson, assisted by Ross Mills
Supports
Greek, Latin
Awards
Type Directors Club ‘Judge’s Choice’ (Abbott Miller), 2013.
Release history
2012
Version 1.00
2024
Version 2.00
License Agreement
Athena Ruby is a typeface for transcription of Byzantine seals and coins, commissioned by the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Museum. It provides multiple forms of Greek and Latin letters, reflecting more than a thousand years of palaeographic evolution and distinctive sigillographic and numismatic usage. Athena Ruby was selected as a Judge’s Choice in the 2013 TDC Typeface Design competition by Abbott Miller, who noted ‘its ability to aid research and provide typographic expression that, in turn, leads to a stronger set of interpretative tools.’
Version 2.00 of Athena Ruby includes extensions made in recent years and a broader range of font formats, and is released by Dumbarton Oaks under the Open Font License.
Designer
TrueType hinting
The Athena Ruby project was led on the client side by Joel Kalvesmaki, and managed by his Dumbarton Oaks colleague Kathy Sparkes. The project built on extensive cataloguing of variant letterforms on Byzantine seals and coins conducted by Joel, without which it would not have been possible.