Urs Liska <[email protected]> writes: > Am 26.06.2013 02:10, schrieb Hilary Snaden: >> 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). >>>> >>> 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 had also tried it out. Gentium has a quite strong individual style, > and it is a style that I just didn't like for my scores. Don't know if > that's just a matter of personal taste or if text fonts in scores > should generally be somewhat less obtrusive.
It's a general thing I guess as they need to blend with basic material of a graphical nature. In my opinion, you would not want individual angles and flourishes. It would seem reasonable to have reasonable weight on the central text axis rather than a serif-heavy approach since words get spread across the page and sometimes syllables are just slightly spread apart, so you don't want serif gaps become a prominent feature of the font. Someone mentioned Computer Modern, but I don't think the rather scale- and resolution-dependent way in which hairlines are used for letter shaping against the leading would lend itself greatly for that kind of application. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
