From: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: two superscript versions with Garamond Libre
Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 08:24:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F21BE8B8-2EA5-4888-A10D-3BBDE351FB2D@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <367eb6b7-e685-e95d-9f6f-87ddf2c9ce29@mailbox.org>
> Am 19.05.2020 um 08:08 schrieb Jan U. Hasecke <juh+ntg-context@mailbox.org>:
>
> 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.
That’s what I did. WRT swash capitals, the author told me:
\startquotation
I adopted this font, as a fork from an upstream which is no longer published under a libre license. Then I did make some slight extensions. But I didn't choose this. Right now, I am working on a new font, Salieri, which I hope will be of better quality once it is finished, and which, if it ever gets swash capitals, will get them according to some historically-rooted standard, most likely, though we are nowhere near that.
\stopquotation
I read this as “better don’t expect me to enhance anything substantial“.
HR
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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
2020-05-19 6:24 ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2020-05-19 14:29 ` Pablo Rodriguez
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