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author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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date | Thu Dec 22 13:03:20 2022 +0000 (2022-12-22) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/otf-gfs/description.txt Thu Dec 22 13:03:20 2022 +0000 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ 1.4 +Type design of Greek fonts was until very recently exclusively 1.5 +imported from Western European foundries. 1.6 +During the Rennaissance the typecutters followed the late 1.7 +byzantine hand, which was full of ligatures and abbrevations 1.8 +of letters. This practice continued until the Age of Enlightenment, 1.9 +when the practical simplification of the Greek typecase was 1.10 +followed by a quest for an "ideal" Greek type design under the 1.11 +influence of Romanticism. 1.12 +The digital redesigns of several historic fonts offered here 1.13 +chart this historic evolution of Greek type design.