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| author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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| date | Fri Mar 04 09:32:37 2022 +0100 (2022-03-04) |
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1 Type design of Greek fonts was until very recently exclusively
2 imported from Western European foundries.
3 During the Rennaissance the typecutters followed the late
4 byzantine hand, which was full of ligatures and abbrevations
5 of letters. This practice continued until the Age of Enlightenment,
6 when the practical simplification of the Greek typecase was
7 followed by a quest for an "ideal" Greek type design under the
8 influence of Romanticism.
9 The digital redesigns of several historic fonts offered here
10 chart this historic evolution of Greek type design.