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Description: "ancient Greek oblique font\n From the middle of the 19th century an\
\ italic font with many\n calligraphic overtones was introduced into Greek printing.\
\ Its source\n is unknown, but it almost certainly was the product of a German\
\ or\n Italian foundry. In the first type specimen printed in Greece by the\n\
\ typecutter K. Miliadis (1850), the font was listed anonymously along\n others\
\ of 11pts and in the Gr. Doumas' undated specimen appeared as\n \xAB11pt Greek\
\ inclined\xBB. For most of the second half of the century the\n type was used\
\ extensively as an italic for emphasis in words,\n sentences or excerpts. In\
\ 1889, the folio size Type Specimen of\n Anestis Konstantinidis' publishing,\
\ printing and type founding\n establishment also included the type as \xABGreek\
\ inclined [9 & 12 pt]\xBB.\n .\n Nevertheless, the excessively calligraphic style\
\ of the characters,\n combined with the steep and uncomfortable obliqueness of\
\ the\n capitals, was out of favour in the 20th century and the type did not\n\
\ survive the conformity of the mechanical type cutting and casting.\n The font\
\ has been digitally revived, as part of our typographic\n tradition, by George\
\ D. Matthiopoulos and is part of GFS' type\n library under the name GFS Solomos,\
\ in commemoration of the great\n Greek poet of the 19th century, Dionisios Solomos."
Homepage: https://www.greekfontsociety.gr/
Installed-Size: '82'
Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force <debian-fonts@lists.debian.org>
Multi-Arch: foreign
Package: fonts-gfs-solomos
Priority: optional
Section: fonts
Version: 1.1-6
srcpkg_name: fonts-gfs-solomos
srcpkg_version: 1.1-6