# Greek letters don't depending of the font [duplicate]

For some reason mathematica (11.0.1 Windows 10 64-bit) does no use greek letter font from the selected font by

FontFamily -> "AnyFont"


When I check the lambda character for any font with :

 Take[$FontFamilies, All]; Style[\[Lambda], FontFamily -> #, 30] & /@ %  I get only 3 kinds of lambda. They does not seems to belong to special type of fonts (like "Serif", "Sans" etc.). Where does this come from ? (I check this : Wrong font selection for some characters in Mathematica 10 for Linux I suppress greek letter replacement but it does not change anything) Thank you ! edit : L = Rasterize[Style[\[Lambda], FontFamily -> #, 30]] & /@$FontFamilies


givs this (just a part of the whole result) :

One can clearly see there is only 3 type of lambda (with variations with repect to the property of the font used I guess).

and :

 {Length[L], Length[DeleteDuplicates[L]]}


gives :

{343,174}

• Not all fonts include glyphs for everything in Unicode (in fact, most don't). Can you create a lambda in all of these fonts in other pieces of software in your system? – Michael Seifert Jul 18 '19 at 17:21
• On "12.0.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (April 7, 2019)" I get 336 different lambdas for 442 available font families. L = Rasterize[Style[\[Lambda], FontFamily -> #, 30]] & /@ \$FontFamilies and then {Length[L], Length[DeleteDuplicates[L]]} gives {442, 336}. – Roman Jul 18 '19 at 17:44
• @MichaelSeifert : yep For exemple for Latin Modern Math or Computer Modern fonts I get the right "lambda" on LibreOffice/Words etc. but not on Mathematica. @Roman : It gives {343,174} but this is is only 3 type of lambda with lot of variation (size and offset from the baseline with respect to the standard size/position of the different fonts) I will add screenshot in my original post, it will be more clear. – Dalnor Jul 19 '19 at 9:50
• After looking a bit more closely, I confirm that on "12.0.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (April 7, 2019)" there are also only three different lambdas. The rest of the variation comes from size and shift variations. – Roman Jul 19 '19 at 14:24