Package fonts-otf-gfs-didot-classic: Information
Source package: fonts-otf-gfs-didot-classic
Version: 20080702-alt4_28
Build time: Feb 6, 2022, 06:54 PM in the task #294874
Category: System/Fonts/True type
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Summary: GFS Didot Classic, a 19th century Greek font family
Description:
Under the influence of the neoclassical ideals of the late 18th century, the famous French type cutter Firmin Didot in Paris designed a new Greek typeface (1805) which was immediately used in the publishing program 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. Didota.'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.
List of rpms provided by this srpm:
fonts-otf-gfs-didot-classic (noarch)
fonts-otf-gfs-didot-classic-doc (noarch)
fonts-otf-gfs-didot-classic (noarch)
fonts-otf-gfs-didot-classic-doc (noarch)
Maintainer: Igor Vlasenko
Last changed
Feb. 6, 2022 Igor Vlasenko 20080702-alt4_28
- use short alt-style fontdir name
Feb. 6, 2022 Igor Vlasenko 20080702-alt3_28
- update to new release by fcimport
Oct. 20, 2017 Igor Vlasenko 20080702-alt3_18
- update to new release by fcimport