Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

[Urs Liska]

Am 07.01.2013 15:01, schrieb Peter Crighton:
> 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.
Gentium looks fine, and your example looks fine.
But the letters are quite wide in this font, and you wouldn't be able to 
achieve any tighter horizontal spacing than you have. In your example 
this isn't a problem, mainly because you have only the melody and the 
corresponding lyrics. But if you had another staff with an accompaniment 
it could become somewhat awkward. Therefore I'd prefer a font family 
that has  'condensed' variant. If it also had  'medium' and 'semibold' 
variants, one could probably find a version that perfectly suits the 
visual appearance of the score.

I hope this makes sense ...

Best
Urs

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