wok-current annotate otf-gfs/description.txt @ rev 24970
created recipe for midori-lang
| author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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| date | Tue Apr 26 14:49:30 2022 +0100 (2022-04-26) |
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| Hans-G?nter@24170 | 1 Type design of Greek fonts was until very recently exclusively |
| Hans-G?nter@24170 | 2 imported from Western European foundries. |
| Hans-G?nter@24170 | 3 During the Rennaissance the typecutters followed the late |
| Hans-G?nter@24170 | 4 byzantine hand, which was full of ligatures and abbrevations |
| Hans-G?nter@24170 | 5 of letters. This practice continued until the Age of Enlightenment, |
| Hans-G?nter@24170 | 6 when the practical simplification of the Greek typecase was |
| Hans-G?nter@24170 | 7 followed by a quest for an "ideal" Greek type design under the |
| Hans-G?nter@24170 | 8 influence of Romanticism. |
| Hans-G?nter@24170 | 9 The digital redesigns of several historic fonts offered here |
| Hans-G?nter@24170 | 10 chart this historic evolution of Greek type design. |