Package fonts-otf-gfs-didot-classic: Information
Source package: fonts-otf-gfs-didot-classic
Version: 20080702-alt3_11
Build time: Feb 23, 2013, 12:54 AM
Category: System/Fonts/True type
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Summary: GFS Didot Classic Greek font
Description:
Under the influence of the neoclassical ideals of the late 18th century, the famous French typecutter Firmin Didot in Paris designed a new Greek typeface (1805) which was immediately used in the publishing programme of Adamantios Korai, the prominent intellectual figure of the Greek diaspora and leading scholar of the Greek Enlightenment. The typeface eventually arrived in Greece, with the field press which came with Didota.'s grandson Ambroise Firmin Didot, during the Greek Revolution in 1821. Since then the typeface has enjoyed an unrivaled success as the type of choice for almost every kind of publication until the last decades of the 20th century. Didot's original type design, as it is documented in publications during the first decades of the 19th century, was digitized and revived by George D. Matthiopoulos in 2006 for a project of the Department of Literature in the School of Philosophy at the University of Thessaloniki, and is now available for general use.
Maintainer: Igor Vlasenko
ACL:
@qa_p7
@qa_p7
Last changed
Feb. 22, 2013 Igor Vlasenko 20080702-alt3_11
- update to new release by fcimport
July 27, 2012 Igor Vlasenko 20080702-alt3_10
- update to new release by fcimport
March 21, 2012 Igor Vlasenko 20080702-alt3_9
- rebuild to get rid of #27020