Package fonts-otf-gfs-jackson: Information

    Source package: fonts-otf-gfs-jackson
    Version: 20080303-alt3_26
    Build time:  Feb 11, 2022, 02:20 AM
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    License: OFL
    Summary: GFS Jackson, 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 Jackson is an edition of the font cut, in 1788, by Joseph Jackson on
    commission by the Cambridge University in preparation of the edition of the
    Beza codex containing the New Testament from the 5th-6th century. Theodore
    Beza was the erudite scholar from Geneva who had given the codex as a gift to
    the University in 1581.
    
    It has been designed by George D. Matthiopoulos.

    List of RPM packages built from this SRPM:
    fonts-otf-gfs-jackson (noarch)

    Maintainer: Igor Vlasenko

    List of contributors:
    Igor Vlasenko

      1. rpm-build-fedora-compat-fonts
      2. rpm-build-fonts
      3. rpm-macros-fedora-compat
      4. rpm-macros-fonts
      5. unzip

    Last changed


    Feb. 7, 2022 Igor Vlasenko 20080303-alt3_26
    - update to new release by fcimport
    Oct. 20, 2017 Igor Vlasenko 20080303-alt3_17
    - update to new release by fcimport
    July 26, 2016 Igor Vlasenko 20080303-alt3_15
    - update to new release by fcimport