wok-current diff otf-gfs/description.txt @ rev 24743

updated libffi and libffi-dev (3.3 -> 3.4.2)
author: Hans-G?nter Theisgen
date: Wed Mar 16 10:41:57 2022 +0100 (2022-03-16)
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     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.