Package fonts-otf-gfs-fleischman: Information
Source package: fonts-otf-gfs-fleischman
Version: 20080303-alt3_27
Build time: Oct 22, 2023, 02:59 PM
Category: System/Fonts/True type
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Summary: GFS Fleischman, a majuscule Greek 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 Fleischman was cut by Johann Michael Fleischman, type cutter of the Dutch EnschedA. foundry and follows the baroque style of the mid-18th century aesthetics. It has been designed by George D. Matthiopoulos.
Maintainer: Igor Vlasenko
Last changed
Feb. 7, 2022 Igor Vlasenko 20080303-alt3_27
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Oct. 20, 2017 Igor Vlasenko 20080303-alt3_17
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July 26, 2016 Igor Vlasenko 20080303-alt3_15
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