Could you explain to me why you think Gentium isn’t suitable for lyrics? I’m using it (Gentium Book Basic) for my lyrics and am quite satisfied with it: https://s3.amazonaws.com/radiant_records/Sing+it+High+Songbook/Sing+It+High+Sample.pdf But maybe I’m missing some important issues … I’m not that much of a typographer.
-- Peter Crighton | Musician & Music Engraver based in Mainz, Germany http://www.petercrighton.de 2013/1/7 Urs Liska <[email protected]>: > Am 07.01.2013 12:09, schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: > >> Am 2013-01-07 um 10:14 schrieb Urs Liska: >> >>> I'd like to collect some suggestion for a replacement font for Century >>> Schoolbook. >>> So (to finally get to the point) I'd be happy about suggestions for good >>> free text fonts to use with LilyPond. >>> They should be well equipped in terms of language support and have a good >>> array of weights and spacings. >> >> Hi Urs, >> I nearly always use TeX Gyre Schola for the lyrics in my lead sheets and >> songbooklets - mostly the same as Century Schoolbook, because it’s very good >> readable even under bad light conditions. >> Other Open Source fonts I like very much are e.g. Gentium, Antykwa >> Toruńska and TeX Gyre Pagella (Palatino), but I wouldn’t recommend them for >> lyrics. > > Thanks for the hints, I will look into them (although you're right they > aren't very good for lyrics). > Antykwa Toruńska looks nice (I knew the other ones already). > And I found Antykwa Półtawskiego on that page, which has plenty of weights. > I will try this one out and see how it looks in the score context. > > Best > Urs > >> The only Open Source fonts with several weights that I would recommend, is >> TeX Latin Modern, even if it looks rather old fashioned; but I like the sans >> serif, e.g. for chord names. >> >> http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/ >> http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin-modern >> http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium >> http://jmn.pl/en/antykwa-torunska/ >> >> Greetlings, Hraban >> --- >> fiëé visuëlle >> Henning Hraban Ramm >> http://www.fiee.net >> http://angerweit.tikon.ch/lieder/ >> https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
