url: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/pages/en_typefaces20th.html
designer: Greek Font Society
license: OFL
payment: NONE
subsets: greek,menu
description: <p>The design of new Greek typefaces always followed the growing needs \
  of the Classical Studies in the major European Universities. \
  Furthermore, by the end of the 19th century bibliology had become an \
  established section of Historical Studies, and, as John Bowman \
  commented, the prevailing attitude was that Greek types should adhere \
  to a lost idealized, yet undefined, greekness of yore. Especially in \
  Great Britain this tendency remained unchallenged \
  in the first decades of the 20th century, both by Richard Proctor, \
  curator of the incunabula section in the British Museum Library and \
  his successor Victor Scholderer. In 1927, Scholderer, on behalf of the \
  Society for the Promotion of Greek Studies, got involved in choosing \
  and consulting the design and production of a Greek type called New \
  Hellenic cut by the Lanston Monotype Corporation. He chose the revival \
  of a round, and almost monoline type which had first appeared in 1492 \
  in the edition of Macrobius, ascribable to the printing shop of \
  Giovanni Rosso (Joannes Rubeus) in Venice. New Hellenic was the only \
  successful typeface in Great Britain after the introduction of Porson \
  Greek well over a century before. The type, since to 1930’s, was also \
  well received in Greece, albeit with a different design for Ξ and Ω. \
  GFS digitized the typeface (1993-1994) funded by the Athens \
  Archeological Society with the addition of a new set of epigraphical \
  symbols. Later (2000) more weights were added (italic, bold and bold \
  italic) as well as a latin version.</p>
conversion: used FontForge to update FullName to "GFS Neohellenic Regular" and similar.
category: sans-serif
