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Yiannis Kefallinos

Engraver, teacher and founder of the engraving course at the Athens School of Fine Arts in 1939, 1894-1958. His Theokritos font family from 1957 was digitized by the Greek Font Society in 2005-2006 (in collaboration with the School of Fine Arts, Athens) as GFS Theokritos, the redesign having been done by George D. Matthiopoulos. Free at Open Font Library.

Quoting the Greek Font Society: Yannis Kefallinos (1894-1958) was one of the most innovative engravers of his generation and the first who researched methodicaly the aesthetics of book and typographic design in Greece. He taught at the Fine Arts School of Athens and established the first book design workshop from which many practising artists of the 60's and 70's had graduated. In the late 50's Kefallinos designed and published an exquisite book with engraved illustrations of the ancient white funerary pottery in Attica in collaboration with Varlamos, Montesanto, Damianakis. For the text of Kefallinos' (1956) the artist used a typeface which he himself had designed a few years before for an unrealised edition of Theocritos' Idyls. Its complex and heavily decorative design does point to aesthetic codes which preoccupied his artistic expression and, although impractical for contemporary text setting, it remains an original display face, or it can be used as initials.

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