Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

[Urs Liska]

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.
>
> Nick

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.

Urs