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Gerry Leonidas

@gerryleonidas.bsky.social
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Professor of Typography. Greek worldwide. Happiest on Andros, but any outdoors will do.

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Gerry Leonidas @gerryleonidas.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
We are working to correct the implementation of Greek on digital platforms. Showing Unicode and OEMs that this matters for many readers is critical, so please read and sign this petition: www.openpetition.eu/gr/petition/...
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Digital Greek typography is broken: Improve standards and demand fixes in all software - Αίτηση Online
[Ελληνικό κείμενο παρακάτω] When typing on a computer, phone, or any other digital device, users of the Greek writing system struggle to maintain basic and essential grammatical and orthographic rules...
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Gerry Leonidas @gerryleonidas.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
So, to be clear: if I am not confident with them computer things, or don’t have any, I should click this link to follow the information on the website. I was worried I might have to use a telephone to speak to an actual person.
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Gerry Leonidas @gerryleonidas.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Reasons to be happy and look forward to the weekend: the next instalment in Riccardo Olocco’s re-writing of 15th century typographic history: lazydog.eu/en/product/t...
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Gerry Leonidas @gerryleonidas.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
One of my PhDs used the term “Educrat”. Although the context is different (the historical calligraphy scene in Sanyi) the term describes perfectly the management class that turned universities from collections of research and innovation cells to process behemoths
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Gerry Leonidas @gerryleonidas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The kind of ranty footnote my drafts are full of, which never make it to the final version
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