Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · Oct 7
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Greek type users “had to step into the role of the type designer, repurposing Latin letterforms, modifying them to make them resemble Greek ones, or even creating new glyphs.” That’s how designer Leonidas Christakis assembled the magazine logo from (Latin-only) Letraset Candice.

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Fonts In Use · Oct 10

“Despite the fact that the practice of deriving Greek letterforms from Latin ones is formally similar in the cases of both Gill and Van Krimpen on one hand and Greek type users on the other, the power dynamics at play and the occasions are in fact very different.”