[Openfontlibrary] Greek Font Society

Simos Xenitellis simos.lists at googlemail.com
Wed Feb 7 19:06:24 PST 2007


On 1/27/07, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
>     I am very curious to know the background story here, because its
>
> I can't be certain, but I believe Antonis Tsolomitis was likely involved
> at some level.  He works for the Univ. of the Aegean, created the Kerkis
> font (extension of the free URW Bookman), among other things.  I have
> corresponded with him a lot, edited his article for TUGboat, etc.

There is a pilot program for the Greek OLPC and there was interest for
quality Greek fonts.
Partly due to this, I recommended to relicense the GFS fonts to the
OFL and Alexios Zavras contacted the people from the Greek Font
Society towards this direction. Credits go to Alexios.

Simos


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