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The Greek Font Society finally Make Them Available to the Public 242 TUGboat, Volume 29 (2008), No. 2 The Greek Font Society finally make them available to the public. Its type- faces provide support for the \extended" Greek block Vassilios Tsagkalos of Unicode, while older typefaces include the original Abstract ligatures and abbreviated forms | end result: as far as possible, each typeface is intended as a complete The Greek Font Society is a part of Greece standing tool for the user and a historical sample to every new against a predominantly easy-going culture. type designer who may wish to learn the history of Background and goals his/her art before attempting to design. Although polytonic Greek is technically sup- The text that follows is a translation of a text that ported, this does not mean that GFS's statutory originally appeared in Greek in (Eutypon), Εὔτυποn goals include reversion to the polytonic system. (As the newsletter of the Greek T X Friends Group (see E of 1982, the official grammar of the Greek state is http://www.eutypon.gr). The text has been trans- monotonic Modern Greek.) GFS is not a literary or lated into English by the original author. linguistic union that can take a collective position A non-profit organization committed to study- on issues outside its area of expertise. Its goal is ing meticulously, creating superbly and offering open- to reinforce and promote Greek typography in our ly: the Greek Font Society (GFS) was founded in globalized milieu, that is, it stretches out to reach 1992 with the express aim of contributing to the users not necessarily located in Greece but every research of Greek typography and supporting Greek user of the Greek language around the world. Since typefaces in a digital environment. Its Board of the Greek script has evolved through several forms Directors consists of Mikhail V. Sakellariou (Pres- during the millennia, different scholars should be ident), Lili Macrakis (Vice-President), Dimitris G. offered the technical prospect of using it in their Portolos (Secretary), Lena G. Savidis (Treasurer), own ways: be it Greek or non-Greek researchers Giorgos E. Agouridis and Eleftheria Giakoumakis. of Homer, annotators of Papadiamantis, historians GFS's type design program began through the collab- studying Thucydides or critics of El Greco's work, oration of the then Vice-President Mikhail Macrakis all need to use Greek typefaces for the special needs and its artistic director, the painter-engraver Takis of their sectors. Katsoulidis, with the type designer and typogra- phy researcher George D. Matthiopoulos and the Typefaces philologist Eleni Tsialta. The current working group The public is therefore offered a continuously widen- consists of George Matthiopoulos (artistic director) ing choice of Greek OpenType fonts freely distributed and type designers Mikhail Semoglou and Natasha under the SIL Open Font License, including impor- Raissaki. GFS operates on limited resources which tant historical samples and new designs which respect leave no space for promotional campaigns; it will the typographic tradition and avoid the insensitive continue to function as long as this is manageable. and ignorant copying of Latin-based standards. As Operational costs are usually covered by subventions, GFS survives on donations, it offers its cultural work grants and financial support from various state and for free, only to remind those who tend to forget that non-state bodies. there is an alternative way of living apart from profit- The Greek Font Society was established to fill making and also in its attempt to make a positive the observed gap in systematic research of the impor- step towards the others, even to the disadvantage of tance of Greek typeface design for visual communi- one's personal gain. cation as well as to emphasize the specific weight of In opposition to the argument made by many history, the reverberation and consolidation of visual that the Greek alphabet is in risk of extinction, be- forms in an area of artistically illiterate publishers cause its letters become more and more similar to with low typographic expectations within Greece. It the glyphs of Latin script fonts, GFS states that seeks to offer a solution today to a problem which the main enemy is not the Latin script itself but initially should have been addressed systematically rather an aversion to the knowledge of the past and as long ago as the late 19th century, in order to enjoy its teachings, the statements of our present leaders its fruits today. which lulls our vigilance, the spiritual sybaritism GFS's work is well-described by its impressive typical of contemporary Greeks along with the poor motto: always study and continuously train your quality of most Greek libraries and the taking of eyes! That's why they investigate the past of Greek minimum pains for every effort. Now, ‘effort’ is one typography, study the design rules that formed it, keyword for the Greek Font Society, along with the digitize and preserve historical Greek typefaces, and second keyword of ‘offer’: five majuscule typefaces TUGboat, Volume 29 (2008), No. 2 243 are offered, together with GFS Complutum Classic GFS is also preparing an anthology of Greek (with new capital letters) from the 16th century, typography, presenting books which have impacted three typefaces from the 18th century, another three the typography of Greek publications from the era from the 19th century and seven typefaces from the of earliest typography to mid-20th century, as well 20th/21st century | all free of charge! Naturally we as historical information on the publishers and ty- can only expect more free GFS fonts. pographers who created them. The anthology will As for our present (LA)TEX, GFS offers five free aim at making Greek typographic history accessible fonts: GFSDidotTeX, GFSBodoniTeX, GFSPorsonTeX, to all and enabling Greek graphic designers to come GFSNeoHellenicTeX and GFSArtemisiaTeX. That is, into contact with the history of their art by offering we do provide specific fonts and a web page dedi- images and data kept hidden on library shelves. cated to TEX, combined with a presentation of the Department of Mathematics at the University of the Interview: George Matthiopoulos Aegean and the Laboratory of Digital Typography Mr George Matthiopoulos works as a type designer and Mathematical Applications. All this is thanks for the Greek Font Society. He kindly agreed to to a collaboration of the GFS with a member of our answer the questions which Εὔτυποn put to him. Greek TEX Friends group, Antonis Tsolomitis. Need- less to say, all OpenType fonts can be used directly Q: What makes Greek typographic history worth attention and study? with X TE EX/X E LATEX. A: The history of every aspect of the art and tech- Publishing niques which shaped the course of modern Greek The Greek Font Society is also productive in pub- culture is, in my view, self-evidently worthy; add to lishing, since it has translated and designed Robert this that a better understanding of the typographic Bringhurst's renowned book \The Elements of Ty- tradition aids the creative assimilation of the global- pographic Style,", Crete University Press, Iraklion, ized visual communication by new generation graphic 2001, with a grant by the Stavros Niarchos Founda- designers. tion. For the occasion of the 2004 Olympic Games Q: Would you say that the Greek script receives its in Athens, GFS designed and published, also with value through the ages on the simple grounds of being the kind support of the Stavros Niarchos Founda- the carrier of the Greek language and civilization or tion, a set of seven bilingual not-for-sale publications does it have its own value due to some important (English, French, German, Modern Greek, Italian, people that have served it? Russian, and Spanish) of the 14 Olympic Odes of Pin- A: Letters are primarily communication symbols of dar using historical Greek typefaces from the 15th to a language, but in the course of time they develop the 20th century for the ancient Greek text. The An- a timeless aesthetic connection with language. The cient Greek text was typeset in seven digital redesigns Greek alphabet originated without many modifica- (one for each language) of the most celebrated Greek tions from the Phoenician alphabet and the Latin typefaces elaborated in several European countries. alphabet was derived from the Greek. [According to This publication was aimed at asserting that the the American scholar Barry B. Powel, the alphabet Olympic Games, far from becoming used up as an is a Greek invention: see Homer and the Origin of instance of immoderate commercialization, ought to the Greek Alphabet, Cambridge University Press, be generating a cultural dialogue uniting all nations. 1991.] So, any couplings between language and aes- The set was offered as a gift to all of the participating thetics are not metaphysical and immovable ideas Olympic Committees in the Games and sent to a (in the Platonic sense), but are rather shaped by range of libraries in Greece and abroad. the historical process: historical changes, such as the In 1995 the GFS organised an International Con- transition from majuscule to miniscule script (around ference, \Greek Letters: From Tablets to Pixels" at the 9th century) or the simplification of the typo- the Institute Fran¸caisd'Ath`enesin 1995, with Greek graphic case by removal of the Byzantine ligatures and foreign participants who presented their research (in the mid-18th century) were not undertaken by on the history, aesthetics and technological future individual persons but resulted from already existing of the Greek typefaces. The proceedings of the Con- changes in everyday practice. ference are downloadable in Greek from the GFS's website, and their English translation by Mikhail S. Q: In an age of abundant impressive technological Macrakis (ed.), \Greek Letters: From Tablets to Pix- means, with many technical issues resolved, do you els", was published by Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, think that the artistic component of typography is Delaware, 1996.
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