Takis Katsoulidis

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Takis Katsoulidis Greek painter/engraver/type designer born in Messini. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Athens and at Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was director of the school ATO (Doxiadis school of Art), professor and head of the Graphic Design department at the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens. He has also worked as a consultant for many publications while he is well known as a stamp designer. Takis is a well-known engraver, with a large number of personal exhibitions, participations and distinctions in various Biennale and international exhibitions. In 2003, his hometown Messini honoured him by establishing the Engraving Museum Takis Katsoulidis at the old City Hall. He is the author of the book The Design of Letter", and is collaborating with Cannibal since 2001. Takis designed a didone called GFS Didot in 1994. This was digitized in 2005 by George Matthiopoulos and is now available as a nice free set of OpenType fonts through the Greek Font Society Open Font Library. This Greek family has a matching Latin alphabet based on Palatino. The fonts can be used for both Latin and Greek, so here is a great free family. The GFS writes about GFS Didot: Firmin Didot in Paris designed a new Greek typeface (1805) which was immediately used in the publishing programme of Adamantios Korai, the prominent intellectual figure of the Greek diaspora and leading scholar of the Greek Enlightment. The typeface eventually arrived in Greece, with the field press which came with Didots grandson Ambroise Firmin Didot, during the Greek Revolution in 1821. Since then the typeface has enjoyed an unrivaled success as the type of choice for almost every kind of publication until the last decades of the 20th century. GFS Bodoni (1992-1993) is a didone designed by Takis Katsoulidis and digitized in 2005 by George Matthiopoulos. GFS Artemisia was designed by Takis Katsoulidis and digitized by George Matthiopoulos in 2001. GFS Neohellenic (1993-2000, Takis Katsoulidis and George D. Matthiopoulos). They explain: In 1927, Victor Scholderer (British Museum Library curator), 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 1930s, was also well received in Greece, albeit with a different design for Ksi and Omega. 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.. Creator of the Greek typeface Apollonia and of the Byzantian typeface Genesis Polytonic. He publishes some of his creations at Cannibal Fonts: Apollonia, Autokratika, Genesis Katsoulidis, Metamoderna. In 2017, he designed the monolinear curvaceous serif typeface Messiniaka. Dimitris Bovolos contributed to the digital design, with the final editing of Vasilis Georgiou and Panos Haratzopoulos. Chrysanthos Christou (Member of the Academy of Athens and Professor of the History of Modern Art) and Manos Stefanides (curator of the National Gallery of Greece) wrote a book on Katsoulides' work. Klingspor link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Takis Katsoulidis Monotype link Klingspor Museum page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Greek/Coptic ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿