Greek Font Society
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The Greek Font Society (Εταιρεία Ελληνικών Τυπογραφικών Στοιχείων) is a non-profit organization in Greece, founded in 1992, devoted to improving the standard of Greek digital typography.
It has issued four digital fonts, all with full polytonic support:
- GFS Bodoni, a modernized version of Giambattista Bodoni's 1793 design. Font details.
- GFS Didot, inspired by Firmin Didot's 1805 design. Font details.
- GFS Neohellenic, cut by the Lanston Monotype Company. Font details.
- GFS Porson, originally created by Richard Porson from Cambridge, at the end of the 18th century.
The Greek Font Society sponsored an international symposium on the Greek alphabet and Greek typography in 1995.
For the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, GFS designed and published an edition of the 14 Olympian Odes of Pindar using historic Greek typefaces.
[edit] Bibliography
- Michael S. Macrakis, ed., Greek letters: from tablets to pixels, proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Greek Font Society, Oak Knoll Press, 1996, ISBN 1-884718-27-2. Includes papers on history, typography, and character coding by Hermann Zapf, Matthew Carter, Nicolas Barker, John A. Lane, Kyle McCarter, Jerôme Peignot, Pierre MacKay, Silvio Levy, et al.
