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Re: A Fun Find: Early Greek Didot (1790)
What seems to you 'convoluted' is simply how the people who wrote Greek at that time wrote it. Some writer's hands are more or less complex in terms of the number and kind of ligature …1 -
Re: A Fun Find: Early Greek Didot (1790)
It wouldn't have seemed 'esoterica' to them. Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, roughly contemporaneous with Gutenberg's development of moveable type, and there was…5 -
Re: A Fun Find: Early Greek Didot (1790)
The Egenolff-Berner Long Primer Greek was one of the inspirations for my Clio Greek type design, a modified, regularised version of which became SBL Greek.2 -
Re: A Fun Find: Early Greek Didot (1790)
The Aldine style of Greek type that led on to Garamond's and Granjon's, and that came to dominate Greek typography until well into the 18th Century, is based on the handwriting of Greek sch…4 -
Re: A Fun Find: Early Greek Didot (1790)
c| The 1784 and 1789 examples are in the style of Granjon's Greek types. These were the dominant forms of Greek type in western Europe prior to the introduction of the new styles by Bodoni, Bask…4
