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The loneliness of greek typography; myth or reality?

January 1999

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Klimis Mastoridis

University of Nicosia

This brief essay was handed on to URW in December 1992 –two months after the Thessaloniki DIDOT conference– in order to be included in an edition about non-latin typography. The publication was never realised and a Greek version of it appeared in two parts in "Print & Publish" in March and April1994. The 1992 text is printed here without alteration...

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