README.txt

GFS Neohellenic
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Designer: Greek Font Society
License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (see OFL.txt)
Styles: 4
Source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/GFS+Neohellenic

The design of new Greek typefaces always followed the growing needs of the
Classical Studies in the major European Universities. Furthermore, by the end
of the 19th century bibliology had become an established section of Historical
Studies, and, as John Bowman commented, the prevailing attitude was that Greek
types should adhere to a lost idealized, yet undefined, greekness of yore.
Especially in Great Britain this tendency remained unchallenged in the first
decades of the 20th century, both by Richard Proctor, curator of the
incunabula section in the British Museum Library and his successor Victor
Scholderer. In 1927, Scholderer, on behalf of the Society for the Promotion of
Greek Studies, got involved in choosing and consulting the design and
production of a Greek type called New Hellenic cut by the Lanston Monotype
Corporation. He chose the revival of a round, and almost monoline type which
had first appeared in 1492 in the edition of Macrobius, ascribable to the
printing shop of Giovanni Rosso (Joannes Rubeus) in Venice. New Hellenic was
the only successful typeface in Great Britain after the introduction of Porson
Greek well over a century before. The type, since to 1930’s, was also well
received in Greece, albeit with a different design for Ξ and Ω. GFS
digitized the typeface (1993-1994) funded by the Athens Archeological Society
with the addition of a new set of epigraphical symbols. Later (2000) more
weights were added (italic, bold and bold italic) as well as a latin version.

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