Package fonts-otf-gfs-ambrosia: Information
Source package: fonts-otf-gfs-ambrosia
Version: 20080624-alt4_27
Build time: Feb 6, 2022, 06:27 PM in the task #294866
Category: System/Fonts/True type
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Summary: GFS Ambrosia, a Greek majuscule font family
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 modeled 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, remained alive until the early 19th century. GFS Ambrosia has the main characteristics of the majuscule forms of the early Christian tradition. It has been designed by George D. Matthiopoulos.
Maintainer: Igor Vlasenko
Last changed
Feb. 6, 2022 Igor Vlasenko 20080624-alt4_27
- use short alt-style fontdir name
Feb. 6, 2022 Igor Vlasenko 20080624-alt3_27
- update to new release by fcimport
Oct. 20, 2017 Igor Vlasenko 20080624-alt3_17
- update to new release by fcimport