[Pkg-fonts-bugs] ITP: GFS Theokritos - Decorative Greek font

[Nicolas Spalinger]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : ttf-gfs-theokritos
* Version         : 1.0
* Upstream Author : George D. Matthiopoulos
(Greek Font Society)
* URL             :
http://www.greekfontsociety.org/pages/en_typefaces20th.html
* License         : Open Font License
* Description     : Decorative Greek font


Yannis Kefallinos (1894–1958) was one of the most innovative engravers
of his generation and the first who researched methodically the
aesthetics of book and typographic design in Greece. He taught at the
Fine Arts School of Athens and established the first book design
workshop from which many practising artists of the 60's and 70's had
graduated. In the late 50's Kefallinos designed and published an
exquisite book with engraved illustrations of the ancient white funerary
pottery in Attica in collaboration with Varlamos, Montesanto,
Damianakis. For the text of Kefallinos' Δέκα λευκαί λήκυθοι (1956) the
artist used a typeface which he himself had designed a few years before
for an unrealised edition of Theocritos' Idyls. Its complex and heavily
decorative design does point to aesthetic codes which preoccupied his
artistic expression and, although impractical for contemporary text
setting, it remains an original display face, or it can be used as initials.
The book design workshop of the Fine Arts School of Athens has been
recently reorganised, under the direction of professor Leoni Vidali, and
with her collaboration George D. Matthiopoulos has redesigned digitaly
this historical font which is now available as GFS Theokritos.