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--- Comment #1 from Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net 2009-10-09 16:47:40 EDT --- Spec URL: http://nim.fedorapeople.org/gfs-ignacio-fonts.spec SRPM URL: http://nim.fedorapeople.org/gfs-ignacio-fonts-20090923-1.fc13.src.rpm
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.
See also http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GFS_Ignacio_fonts
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