-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-3945 2007-11-29 01:43:08.002822 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : gfs-theokritos-fonts Product : Fedora 8 Version : 20070415 Release : 2.fc8 URL : http://www.greekfontsociety.org/pages/en_typefaces20th.html Summary : GFS Theokritos decorative font Description : Yannis Kefallinos (1894–1958) was one of the most innovative engravers of his generation and the first who researched methodicaly 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated packages: b0b3ee6a9bfb21905f0f8d3b65988d6a3530bc08 gfs-theokritos-fonts-20070415-2.fc8.noarch.rpm 61f5927b19a5fe4363e69ae4b2241111b29c658d gfs-theokritos-fonts-20070415-2.fc8.src.rpm This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update gfs-theokritos-fonts' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list [email protected] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce
