Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

[Nick Payne]

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.
> >
> > 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.

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.

Here's a png of the three fonts as output by Lilypond. The PDF output 
gives a better view of the differences, but as it has all three fonts 
embedded, it's too large to attach here.

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