From: "Jan U. Hasecke" <juh+ntg-context@mailbox.org>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: two superscript versions with Garamond Libre
Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 08:08:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <367eb6b7-e685-e95d-9f6f-87ddf2c9ce29@mailbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A49FC7F6-21C4-437B-BC0C-B9E9269E5EBC@fiee.net>
Am 18.05.20 um 22:23 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:
>
>
>> Am 18.05.2020 um 17:18 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>:
>>
>> Typeface is available at
>> https://github.com/dbenjaminmiller/garamond-libre/releases/latest.
>
> Thank you for the hint, I’m always looking for interesting fonts.
> This is a nicely designed classical Garamond with a big glyph repertoire (Latin, poly Greek, Cyrillic, Byzantine/Greek music symbols, math and other symbols), but after first tests I found flaws:
> – Numbers are a bit too dark; table numbers look a bit too big, oldstyle numbers a bit too small.
> – Small caps are lacking accented vowels including umlauts.
> – Cyrillic is missing Kyrgyz/Kazakh letters (i.e. Cyrillic extended).
> – Kerning is not yet perfect.
> – Accents sit a bit too close on the letters.
> – Swash capitals don’t fit the style at all, they look like some modern hand font like Lucida Handwriting.
Thanks a lot for your insights.
From the repo I guess that this is a quite new project; you could post
bug reports.
juh
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-18 15:18 Pablo Rodriguez
2020-05-18 16:13 ` Hans Hagen
2020-05-18 18:06 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2020-05-18 20:23 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-05-19 6:08 ` Jan U. Hasecke [this message]
2020-05-19 6:24 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-05-19 14:29 ` Pablo Rodriguez
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