Package fonts-otf-gfs-porson: Information
Source package: fonts-otf-gfs-porson
Version: 20060908-alt3_32
Build time: Oct 22, 2023, 03:09 PM
Category: System/Fonts/True type
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Summary: GFS Porson, a 19th century Greek font family
Description:
In England, during the 1790a.'s, Cambridge University Press decided to procure a new set of Greek types. The universitya.'s great scholar of Classics, Richard Porson was asked to produce a typeface based on his handsome handwriting and Richard Austin was commissioned to cut the types. The type was completed in 1808, after the untimely death of Porson the previous year. Its success was immediate and since then the classical editions in Great Britain and the U.S.A. use it, almost invariably. In 1913, Monotype released the typeface with some corrections, notably replacing the upright capitals suggested by Porson with inclined ones. In Greece the typeface was used under the name Pelasgika type. GFS Porson is based on the Monotype version, though using upright capitals, as in the original.
Maintainer: Igor Vlasenko
Last changed
Feb. 7, 2022 Igor Vlasenko 20060908-alt3_32
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Oct. 20, 2017 Igor Vlasenko 20060908-alt3_23
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July 26, 2016 Igor Vlasenko 20060908-alt3_21
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