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Greek typography only got out of squiggle in the Jordan whitehead new york j headline shirt in other words I will buy this late 18th century, and in the early 20th century typographers were coming to fetishise what could have been, if the early tradition had continued on. Classicists may be familiar with the more modern iteration of fonts inspired by the old style: GreekKeys Athenian
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