Re: EB Garamond font-series

[Simon Albrecht]

Hello everybody,

then it seems I have been deceived by the fact that there is a separate file for each bold, italic and bold italic in the .zip provided via the download link I sent along. Thanks for the information.
Still, I wonder: I tried it out even in leafpad (ubuntu's simple text editor) and it recognised the bold series. Maybe I'd personally accept small aesthetical drawbacks in the bold typeface (which isn't used much anyway) in order to enjoy the IMO absolutely ravishing medium series... or just use a medium title, which is also interesting for a change, if also not as convincing as bold.

Best regards, Simon

Am 09-Feb-2015 10:45:57 +0100 schrieb address@hidden:

> On 2015-02-09 05:58, tisimst wrote:
>  > This is correct. LibreOffice does fake italic, bold, and bold-italic if
>  > that variant doesn't exist. LilyPond, however, makes no attempt at this
>  > and just reverts to the closest one that is installed, which is usually
>  > the "regular" variant. [...]
>  >
>  >> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:27 AM, Thomas Spuhler <[hidden email]> wrote:
>  >>
>  >> Are you sure:
>  >> see attachment from libreoffice writer, normal and bold
>  >>
>  >> When there is no bold face present, a word processor might `fake' one
>  >> by modifying the regular (roman) face. I don't know if that is what
>  >> happened in your attachment, [...]
>
>  Yes - see attached. If you convert to SVG and open it in Inkscape, you 
>  can see how the characters decompose into the original text (with 
>  additional spacing between the characters) and an rounded outline.
>
>  Depending on the font, this might yield acceptable results 
>  (professionals will probably disagree) or not - what works for Comic 
>  Sans does not necessarily work for Zapfino... IIUC, the less fine 
>  details in the font, the less ugly is fake bold.
>  I'd refrain from using such a font in a situation where you really need 
>  a bold face and cannot resort to small caps and/or different color 
>  instead (yes, there are /real/ small caps in EB Garamond, those don't 
>  need to be heuristically faked).
>
>
>  W.r.t. the state of bold in EB Garamond, your guesses are supported by 
>  the following entry in the SCM <https://github.com/georgd/EB-Garamond>:
>
>  Fonts in this repository: [...]
>  - EBGaramond12-Bold: Bold font for design size 12pt (very 
>  rough/unusable; not included in releases) [...]
>
>  The last commit on those files was 2 years ago.
>
>
>  Best,
>  Alexander