According to Oikonomides, This new method…does away with intermediate typings and retypings of the manuscript, eliminates several proofreadings, and ultimately saves time for the scholar and money for the publishing institution while producing an affordable book of an acceptable presentation. His goal was to give sigillographers direct control over nuances in the typography, to allow them, for instance, to choose variant letterforms and ligatures. Oikonomides prepared the entire volume on his Apple Macintosh 512 and generated camera-ready copy on a laser printer (only recently invented), an unusual process in the mid-1980s.
The way the book was made was just as innovative. It featured the ligatures, abbreviations, and variant letterforms characteristic of Byzantine seals. His 1986 study, “ A Collection of Dated Byzantine Lead Seals,” published at Dumbarton Oaks, was the first book to use this font, later named Athena. In the early 1980s Nicolas Oikonomides developed a True Type font suitable for publishing seal inscriptions. Character variant tests: Select character variant test | Comprehensive variant test Inscription Fonts at Dumbarton Oaks
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