Package fonts-otf-gfs-fleischman: Information

    Binary package: fonts-otf-gfs-fleischman
    Version: 20080303-alt3_14
    Architecture: noarch
    Build time:  Sep 22, 2015, 07:58 AM in the task #149637
    Source package: fonts-otf-gfs-fleischman
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    License: OFL
    Summary: GFS Fleischman majuscule Greek font
    Description: 
    As it is known, the Greek alphabet was used in majuscule form for over a
    millennium before the minuscule letters gradually replaced it until they became
    the official script in the 9th century A.D. Thereafter, majuscule letters were
    confined to sparse use as initials or elaborate titles until the Italian
    Renaissance.
    
    The new art of Typography, as well as the need of the humanists to mimic the
    ancient Greco-Roman period brought back the extensive use of the majuscule
    letter-forms in both Latin and Greek typography. Greek books of the time were
    printed using the contemporary Byzantine hand with which they combined capital
    letters modelled on the Roman antiquity, i.e. with thick and thin strokes and
    serifs. At the same time the Byzantine majuscule tradition, principally used on
    theological editions, remainned alive until the early 19th century.
    
    GFS Fleischman was cut by Johann Michael Fleishman, typecutter of the Dutch
    EnschedA. foundry and follows the baroque style of the mid-18th century
    A.sthetics.
    
    It has been designed by George D. Matthiopoulos.

    Maintainer: Igor Vlasenko

    List of contributors:
    Igor Vlasenko

    Last changed


    Sept. 20, 2015 Igor Vlasenko 20080303-alt3_14
    - update to new release by fcimport
    Oct. 27, 2014 Igor Vlasenko 20080303-alt3_13
    - update to new release by fcimport
    June 26, 2014 Igor Vlasenko 20080303-alt3_12
    - update to new release by fcimport