Package fonts-otf-gfs-nicefore: Information
Source package: fonts-otf-gfs-nicefore
Version: 20080303-alt3_14
Build time: Sep 22, 2015, 08:19 AM in the task #149644
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Category: System/Fonts/True type
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Summary: GFS Nicefore majuscule Greek font
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 modelled 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, remainned alive until the early 19th century. GFS Nicefore is a typical Byzantine sample of the 5th-7th century period. It has been designed by George D. Matthiopoulos.
Maintainer: Igor Vlasenko
Last changed
Sept. 20, 2015 Igor Vlasenko 20080303-alt3_14
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Oct. 27, 2014 Igor Vlasenko 20080303-alt3_13
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June 26, 2014 Igor Vlasenko 20080303-alt3_12
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