Letter G

gfs-gazis-fonts - An 18th century Greek typeface

Website: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/pages/en_typefaces18th.html
License: OFL
Vendor: Fedora Project
Description:
During the whole of the 18th century the old tradition of using Greek types
designed to conform to the Byzantine cursive hand with many ligatures and
abbreviations - as it was originated by Aldus Manutius in Venice and
consolidated by Claude Garamont (Grecs du Roy) - was still much in practice,
although clearly on the wane.

GFS Gazis is a typical German example of this practice as it appeared at the
end of that era in the 1790's. Its name pays tribute to Anthimos Gazis
(1758-1828), one of the most prolific Greek thinkers of the period, who was
responsible for writing, translating and editing numerous books, including the
editorship of the important Greek periodical Ερμής ο Λόγιος (Litterary Hermes)
in Wien.

GFS Gazis has been digitally designed by George D. Matthiopoulos.

Packages

gfs-gazis-fonts-20091008-4.fc18.noarch [254 KiB] Changelog by Fedora Release Engineering (2012-07-19):
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild

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