Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

[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). 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.
> > 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.

I tried Gentium Book Basic, but after a while something about it 
increasingly irritated me. I've been using Linux Libertine for a couple 
of years or so now and I still like it. :) I very rarely use sans-serif, 
but when I do I use Linux Biolinum.

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Hilary