Grecs du roi

[7][8][9][10] The Grecs du roi were extremely influential and became a model other printers and publishers quickly sought to emulate, with versions by other French punchcutters even before Garamond had finished the last size.

[14][15] The Grecs du roi style, although extremely influential, placed significant demands on printers, since it requires a choice among many possible sorts that could be used in every word, in contrast to Latin-alphabet general-purpose typefaces which do not attempt to simulate handwriting as closely.

Gerry Leonidas, a leading expert on Greek typesetting, felt that Vergecio's handwriting "has all the marks of a script that is unsuitable for conversion to [printing].

[20] Mindaugas Strockis created a free digital font named Grecs du roi WG in 2001, though it lacks ligatures.

[21] George Douros's Anaktoria, part of his Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts, is a reproduction of the Grecs du roi with ligatures.

Estienne's 1550 edition of the New Testament was typeset with Garamond's Grecs du roi . [ 1 ]
A manuscript written by Vergecio, whose handwriting was the basis for the type
Garamond's original punches for the Grecs du roi type, which remain the property of the French government.
Detail view of a few punches