On 24/06/13 03:20, Nick Payne wrote:
On 24/06/13 09:58, Urs Liska wrote:
Am 24.06.2013 00:32, schrieb Nick Payne:
How about considering Gentium Plus once the bold and bold italic faces
are available (at the moment Gentium Plus contains only regular and
italic faces). It's released under the SIL open font license
(http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=OFL) and
contains virtually all the characters defined in Unicode 5.1 for Latin
and Cyrillic. See
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=Gentium and
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=Gentium_Technical.
I've been using Gentium Book Basic in my scores for a while and like
the look of it. It's essentially Gentium with a more limited character
set (only the Basic Latin and Latin-1 Unicode ranges), but it contains
regular, bold, italic, and bold italic faces.
As a reminder: My initial motivation to look for a replacement of the
default font was its wide spacing. I'm looking for a free font that can
achieve tighter spacing in lyrics while being still heavy enough to
complement LilyPond's music font.
I am very fond of Adobe's Minion Pro, especially for its combination of
medium and semibold weights and semicondensed and condensed widths. So
for my personal use I'm quite happy but I'd be even happier when finding
a free font with similar characteristics.
Gentium Book Basic is pretty much the same weight as Lilypond's default
Century Schoolbook, but considerably tighter. Gentium Plus is tighter
again but slightly lighter in weight.
I tried Gentium Book Basic, but after a while something about it
increasingly irritated me. I've been using Linux Libertine for a couple
of years or so now and I still like it. :) I very rarely use sans-serif,
but when I do I use Linux Biolinum.
--
Hilary
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