Package fonts-otf-gfs-decker: Information
Source package: fonts-otf-gfs-decker
Version: 20090618-alt3_14
Build time: Oct 22, 2017, 08:28 PM in the task #191449
Category: System/Fonts/True type
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Summary: A 19th century Greek typeface
Description:
This typeface is a product of Deckersche SchriftgieA.ere typefoundry owned by Rudolf Ludwig Decker (1804-1877) in Berlin, but it was frequently used in Greek editions by both Oxford and Cambridge University Press during the last decades of the 19th century. It was designed and cut before 1864, according to John Bowman, when a set of matrices was bought by OUP, although the type was not cast and used in England until 1882. The typeface is an uncial design containing a case of capitals, and small capitals, too. The letters lack any sherifs although they retain their thick and thin strokes. It appeared as an alternate type of Byzantine tradition in mostly patristic texts. The font was digitally designed by George D. Matthiopoulos and is freely available by GFS.
Maintainer: Igor Vlasenko
Last changed
Oct. 20, 2017 Igor Vlasenko 20090618-alt3_14
- update to new release by fcimport
July 26, 2016 Igor Vlasenko 20090618-alt3_12
- update to new release by fcimport
Sept. 20, 2015 Igor Vlasenko 20090618-alt3_11
- update to new release by fcimport