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Re: Otf vs. ttf
The .ttf extension was preserved because the TrueType OT format was designed to be backwards compatible to systems that didn't support OpenType Layout tables, so it was possible to install a Tru…9 -
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
