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Re: Text fonts


From: Urs Liska
Subject: Re: Text fonts
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:26:51 +0100
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Hey, Abraham, cool!

I think it is definitely something to try out for an alternative LilyPond style.
Did you do that? If yes, how is the relation between automated scaling and manual decisions?

Best
Urs

Am 20.11.2014 14:19, schrieb tisimst:
Urs,

Not sure if this would be of any help to you, but here's a condensed variant of the full Vollkorn family.

Regards,
Abraham

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Urs Liska [via Lilypond] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Am 16.11.2014 01:10, schrieb Noeck:

> Hi Urs,
>
> you once asked for nice fonts which come in several »degrees of
> boldness«. You chose Minion Pro, if I remember correctly. I just found
> »Vollkorn« which comes in 8 type faces: http://vollkorn-typeface.com
> I let you decide how you like it – I would say it is worth looking at.
>
> Cheers,
> Joram
>
Hi Joram,

Vollkorn is a good font, and I can imagine it works well with LilyPond
(due to its inherent weight).
But the main issue I am looking for is the combination of weights and a
condensed variant.

Having a condensed font is a huge benefit when trying to fit more music
with lyrics on the page (because with LilyPond's default font lyrics
generally need more horizontal space than the corresponding music.
Minion Pro is extremely good because it also provides a nicely graded
set of weights *onto* the condensed width. With that you can really
fine-tune the appearance of all the different items like lyrics,
barnumbers, textscripts etc. to form a consistent overall appearance
with LilyPond's music. However, I'd still like to have a free
alternative to that one for better usability.

Recently I got a version of Linux Libertine that has been "condensed" by
Abraham Lee, unfortunately I didn't have time to really test it so far.
But this may actually be a good thing because I find Linux Libertine to
be a very nice complement to LilyPond too.

Best
Urs

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