I found Gentium Book Basic to be rather condensed, though, when choosing it several months ago. But you’re right, it might not be that suitable in other settings. I mainly write scores of the type I linked to, though, so at the moment, Gentium Book Basic is perfect for me. I very much like the rather “modern” look, in comparison to other serif fonts. And I also found Ubuntu to be a great sans serif font for chords and the like.
-- Peter Crighton | Musician & Music Engraver based in Mainz, Germany http://www.petercrighton.de 2013/1/7 Urs Liska <li...@ursliska.de>: > Am 07.01.2013 15:01, schrieb 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. > > Gentium looks fine, and your example looks fine. > But the letters are quite wide in this font, and you wouldn't be able to > achieve any tighter horizontal spacing than you have. In your example this > isn't a problem, mainly because you have only the melody and the > corresponding lyrics. But if you had another staff with an accompaniment it > could become somewhat awkward. Therefore I'd prefer a font family that has > 'condensed' variant. If it also had 'medium' and 'semibold' variants, one > could probably find a version that perfectly suits the visual appearance of > the score. > > I hope this makes sense ... > > Best > Urs > > >> >> -- >> Peter Crighton | Musician & Music Engraver based in Mainz, Germany >> http://www.petercrighton.de >> > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
