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Description: extended smart font family for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic
Gentium ("belonging to the nations" in Latin) is a Unicode typeface family
designed to enable the many diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the
Latin script to produce readable, high-quality publications. The design is
intended to be highly readable, reasonably compact, and visually attractive.
Gentium has won a "Certificate of Excellence in Typeface Design" in two major
international typeface design competitions: bukva:raz! (2001) and TDC2003
(2003). The goal is to provide a single Unicode-based font family that
contains a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any Roman- or
Cyrillic-based writing system, whether used for phonetic or orthographic
needs, and provide a matching Greek face. In addition, there is provision for
other characters and symbols useful to linguists. This font makes use of
state-of-the-art font technologies to support complex typographic issues, such
as the need to position arbitrary combinations of base glyphs and diacritics
optimally.
.
Gentium Plus is based on the original Gentium design. However, it now
has the full OpenType and Graphite support that Doulos SIL and Charis
SIL contain — including full IPA support.
.
Work is ongoing to provide bold and bold-italic weights, as well as a
complete book-weight family.
.
More font sources are available in the source package and on the
project website. Webfont versions and HTML/CSS examples are also available.
Description: Font family for wide range of languages that use Latin, Cyrillic, Greek scripts
Gentium ("belonging to the nations" in Latin) is a Unicode typeface family
designed to enable the many diverse ethnic groups around the world who use
the Latin script to produce readable, high-quality publications. The
design is intended to be highly readable, reasonably compact, and visually
attractive. Gentium has won a "Certificate of Excellence in Typeface
Design" in two major international typeface design competitions:
bukva:raz! (2001), TDC2003 (2003). The Gentium Plus font family is based on
this original design.
.
The goal for this product is to provide a single Unicode-based font family
that contains a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any
Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system, whether used for phonetic or
orthographic needs, and provide a matching Greek face. In addition, there
is provision for other characters and symbols useful to linguists. This
font makes use of state-of-the-art font technologies to support complex
typographic issues, such as the need to position arbitrary combinations
of base glyphs and diacritics optimally.
.
Eight fonts from this typeface family are included in this release,
grouped into two families, including a slightly heavier Book family:
* Gentium Plus Regular
* Gentium Plus Bold
* Gentium Plus Italic
* Gentium Plus Bold Italic
.
* Gentium Book Plus Regular
* Gentium Book Plus Bold
* Gentium Book Plus Italic
* Gentium Book Plus Bold Italic
.
Webfont versions and HTML/CSS examples are also available.
.
The full font sources are publicly available at
https://github.com/silnrsi/font-gentium
An open workflow is used for building, testing and releasing.
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-extended smart font family for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic
+Font family for wide range of languages that use Latin, Cyrillic, Greek scripts
Gentium ("belonging to the nations" in Latin) is a Unicode typeface family
- designed to enable the many diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the
- Latin script to produce readable, high-quality publications. The design is
- intended to be highly readable, reasonably compact, and visually attractive.
- Gentium has won a "Certificate of Excellence in Typeface Design" in two major
- international typeface design competitions: bukva:raz! (2001) and TDC2003
- (2003). The goal is to provide a single Unicode-based font family that
- contains a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any Roman- or
- Cyrillic-based writing system, whether used for phonetic or orthographic
- needs, and provide a matching Greek face. In addition, there is provision for
- other characters and symbols useful to linguists. This font makes use of
- state-of-the-art font technologies to support complex typographic issues, such
- as the need to position arbitrary combinations of base glyphs and diacritics
- optimally.
+ designed to enable the many diverse ethnic groups around the world who use
+ the Latin script to produce readable, high-quality publications. The
+ design is intended to be highly readable, reasonably compact, and visually
+ attractive. Gentium has won a "Certificate of Excellence in Typeface
+ Design" in two major international typeface design competitions:
+ bukva:raz! (2001), TDC2003 (2003). The Gentium Plus font family is based on
+ this original design.
.
- Gentium Plus is based on the original Gentium design. However, it now
- has the full OpenType and Graphite support that Doulos SIL and Charis
- SIL contain — including full IPA support.
+ The goal for this product is to provide a single Unicode-based font family
+ that contains a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any
+ Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system, whether used for phonetic or
+ orthographic needs, and provide a matching Greek face. In addition, there
+ is provision for other characters and symbols useful to linguists. This
+ font makes use of state-of-the-art font technologies to support complex
+ typographic issues, such as the need to position arbitrary combinations
+ of base glyphs and diacritics optimally.
.
- Work is ongoing to provide bold and bold-italic weights, as well as a
- complete book-weight family.
+ Eight fonts from this typeface family are included in this release,
+ grouped into two families, including a slightly heavier Book family:
+ * Gentium Plus Regular
+ * Gentium Plus Bold
+ * Gentium Plus Italic
+ * Gentium Plus Bold Italic
.
- More font sources are available in the source package and on the
+ * Gentium Book Plus Regular
- project website. Webfont versions and HTML/CSS examples are also available.
+ * Gentium Book Plus Bold
+ * Gentium Book Plus Italic
+ * Gentium Book Plus Bold Italic
+ .
+ Webfont versions and HTML/CSS examples are also available.
+ .
+ The full font sources are publicly available at
+ https://github.com/silnrsi/font-gentium
+ An open workflow is used for building, testing and releasing.