CF Majestic is a new OpenType font, inspired by the art of greek calligraphy.
It isthe first design of “Stella” project, an attempt by designers John Karlo-poulos, Vassilis Georgiou and Panos Haratzopoulos to study this forgotten heritage and adjust it’s unique style for the modern media and communi-
cation tools.
It isthe first design of “Stella” project, an attempt by designers John Karlo-poulos, Vassilis Georgiou and Panos Haratzopoulos to study this forgotten heritage and adjust it’s unique style for the modern media and communi-
cation tools.
Rough drawings are executed on tracing paper, the first stage of the transformation of the calligraphic into typographic form. The drawings are then scanned, tracedand corrected
on FontLab.
on FontLab.
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The font contains swash capitals, alternative characters, ligatures and non lining figures. Std version supports Greek, Western European,Turkish and Romanian languages, and Pro version (under con-struction) supports additionally Central European and Cyrillic.
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CF Majestic in use. From top to bottom, banners by popaganda.gr, packaging by artware.gr and linocut print by Marios Antonopoulos.
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