How To Install gfs-neohellenic-fonts on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gfs-neohellenic-fonts on Fedora 36.
What is gfs-neohellenic-fonts
The design of new Greek typefaces always followed the growing needs of the Classical Studies in the major European Universities. Furthermore, by the end of the 19th century bibliology had become an established section of Historical Studies, and, as John Bowman commented, the prevailing attitude was that Greek types should adhere to a lost idealized, yet undefined, Greekness of yore. Especially in Great Britain this tendency remained unchallenged in the first decades of the 20th century, both by Richard Proctor, curator of the incunabula section in the British Museum Library and his successor Victor Scholderer. In 1927, Scholderer, 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 mono-line 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 1930’s, 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.
We can use yum or dnf to install gfs-neohellenic-fonts on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gfs-neohellenic-fonts.
Install gfs-neohellenic-fonts on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install gfs-neohellenic-fonts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gfs-neohellenic-fonts
Install gfs-neohellenic-fonts on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install gfs-neohellenic-fonts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gfs-neohellenic-fonts
How To Uninstall gfs-neohellenic-fonts on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the gfs-neohellenic-fonts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gfs-neohellenic-fonts
gfs-neohellenic-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36
/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-gfs-neohellenic-fonts.conf
/usr/share/doc/gfs-neohellenic-fonts
/usr/share/doc/gfs-neohellenic-fonts/OFL-FAQ.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/60-gfs-neohellenic-fonts.conf
/usr/share/fonts/gfs-neohellenic-fonts
/usr/share/fonts/gfs-neohellenic-fonts/GFSNeohellenic.otf
/usr/share/fonts/gfs-neohellenic-fonts/GFSNeohellenicBold.otf
/usr/share/fonts/gfs-neohellenic-fonts/GFSNeohellenicBoldIt.otf
/usr/share/fonts/gfs-neohellenic-fonts/GFSNeohellenicIt.otf
/usr/share/licenses/gfs-neohellenic-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/gfs-neohellenic-fonts/OFL.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/org.fedoraproject.gfs-neohellenic-fonts.metainfo.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gfs-neohellenic-fonts on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).