wok annotate otf-gfs/description.txt @ rev 25153

updated prosody (0.11.5 -> 0.12.1)
author Hans-G?nter Theisgen
date Thu Jun 30 15:07:10 2022 +0100 (23 months ago)
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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.