Re: Font from Cavafy's Handwriting

Ralph Hancock <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:45:48 +0100
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Thanks. It's a pretty font, and some work has gone into adding alternative
letter forms to make it look more like handwriting -- though no matter how
much you do here, it will always look like a font.

Of course the very first Greek typefaces made in Mantua, Venice and Milan
were versions of the handwriting of Greek scholars fleeing the fall of
Constantinople -- there was no other standard. My own Mediolanum font is a
modernised version of a font made in Milan based on the pleasantly naive
round handwriting of Michael Apostolis. And the severely plain slanted
'Porson' fonts which were universal when I was being educated and dinosaurs
roamed the earth were made after the very regular handwriting of Richard
Porson.

RH