Lascaris was designed by Rolf Noyer, Janus
Lascaris and published by
Lascaris.
Lascaris contains 2 styles and family package options.
Lascaris is a digital rendition of Janus
Lascaris' type of 1494-1496, one of the earliest extant non-Aldine polytonic Greeks. The accompanying Roman, quirky and rich in color, was modeled on humanist types of late 15th century Florentine incunabula and has been extended to cover Central European, Baltic and Turkish character sets.
With OpenType-aware applications (recommended), users can easily access the full set of abbreviations, ligatures and stylistic alternates of the original type, which - like most early Greek faces - was intended to imitate the handwriting of late Byzantine manuscript copyists.
Unfortunately the identity of the punchcutter of this unique Greek face still remains a matter of conjecture.
Font Family:
· Lascaris
· Lascaris Bold
File Size: 5.45 MB
Tags: 1400s, 1500s,
aldine,
antiqua,
antique, arts and crafts, bembo, byzantine, florentine,
greek,
historical,
incunabula,
irregular, letterpress,
low-contrast,
medium, monotonic, old-style numerals, oldface,
polytonic,
renaissance,
revival,
robust,
venetian,
vintageRelease date: July 21, 2010
You can use this font for:
- Design projects: create images or vector artwork, including logos
- Website publishing: create a Web Project to add any font from our service to your website
- PDFs: embed fonts in PDFs for viewing and printing
- Video and broadcast: use fonts to create in-house or commercial video content and more
- The fonts are designed to work on MacOS (Apple) and Windows (Microsoft)
Preview:
Download now