Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

[Peter Crighton]

Could you explain to me why you think Gentium isn’t suitable for
lyrics? I’m using it (Gentium Book Basic) for my lyrics and am quite
satisfied with it:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/radiant_records/Sing+it+High+Songbook/Sing+It+High+Sample.pdf
But maybe I’m missing some important issues … I’m not that much of a
typographer.

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Peter Crighton | Musician & Music Engraver based in Mainz, Germany
http://www.petercrighton.de


2013/1/7 Urs Liska <address@hidden>:
> Am 07.01.2013 12:09, schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:
>
>> Am 2013-01-07 um 10:14 schrieb Urs Liska:
>>
>>> I'd like to collect some suggestion for a replacement font for Century
>>> Schoolbook.
>>> So (to finally get to the point) I'd be happy about suggestions for good
>>> free text fonts to use with LilyPond.
>>> They should be well equipped in terms of language support and have a good
>>> array of weights and spacings.
>>
>> Hi Urs,
>> I nearly always use TeX Gyre Schola for the lyrics in my lead sheets and
>> songbooklets - mostly the same as Century Schoolbook, because it’s very good
>> readable even under bad light conditions.
>> Other Open Source fonts I like very much are e.g. Gentium, Antykwa
>> Toruńska and TeX Gyre Pagella (Palatino), but I wouldn’t recommend them for
>> lyrics.
>
> Thanks for the hints, I will look into them (although you're right they
> aren't very good for lyrics).
> Antykwa Toruńska looks nice (I knew the other ones already).
> And I found Antykwa Półtawskiego on that page, which has plenty of weights.
> I will try this one out and see how it looks in the score context.
>
> Best
> Urs
>
>> The only Open Source fonts with several weights that I would recommend, is
>> TeX Latin Modern, even if it looks rather old fashioned; but I like the sans
>> serif, e.g. for chord names.
>>
>> http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/
>> http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin-modern
>> http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium
>> http://jmn.pl/en/antykwa-torunska/
>>
>> Greetlings, Hraban
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