Enabling modernity: innovation in modulated Greek typefaces, 1998-2007
- Submitting institution
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The University of Reading
: B - Typography and Graphic Communication
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory : B - Typography and Graphic Communication
- Output identifier
- 67303
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1163/24519197-12340055
- Title of journal
- Philological Encounters
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- First page
- 412
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 4
- ISSN
- 2451-9197
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This article discusses the associations with tradition, modernity, innovation, and revivalism contained within, and enabled by, three seminal Greek typefaces for continuous reading in a modulated style, developed from 1998 onwards outside Greece. The projects discussed in the paper are exemplars of research-informed design, and are the first comprehensive digital typefaces to address language support in a rich typographic environment for the Greek language. Their importance extends from enabling historically accurate typesetting that was until their development impossible to reproduce, to providing models for other developers and designers to emulate. As such, their impact has been considerable. This article is the only independent analysis of these projects, and itself an example of how to discuss the historical and typesetting dimensions of research-informed typeface design projects.
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- Non-English
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