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The first Greek typographic school
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posted on 2017-10-07, 17:18 authored by Klimis MastoridisKlimis MastoridisCoincidentally or not, most Greeks who were connected with the early
press were active scribes and calligraphers. For this good reason A.F.
Didot devotes a small chapter of his book to the Cretan calligraphers.
The boundaries between Greek calligraphy and the then current
handwriting cannot be easily defined; this is probably due to the
idiosyncratic development of Greek writing. No such thing as the black
letter has ever existed in Greek writing because of the overall
cursiveness of the characters; this may well be one of the reasons why
high levels of individualism have been introduced into Greek writing.
After the appearance of small letters in the ninth century at the
Studios monastery in Constantinople, a variety of hands were to follow.
The main characteristic was their great individuality.