How does Fairplay look to you? http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Playfair+Display
-e. On Jan 7, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > [Vernon Adams and Eben Sorkin are two typographers who are actively > designing lots of typefaces, Dave Crossland is a fabulous promoter of > free font development.] > >> I'd like to collect some suggestion for a replacement font for >> Century Schoolbook. >> >> I created a style sheet for a certain kind of score that I need >> regularely, namely classical voice-piano songs. [...] I am quite >> pleased with the result (as you can see in >> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/49478835/Seligkeit-sample.pdf. >> >> [...] >> >> However, this visual appearance relies quite heavily on the use of a >> non-free Adobe text font (Minion) - LilyPond's built in default >> wouldn't work at all. I don't have problems _using_ it for my own >> work, but of course one can't base a tutorial on it. And maybe I'd >> be feeling even better if I found a free alternative for my own use. >> What proved especially valuable is the presence of a semibold >> condensed version of the font, which works very well for the lyrics, >> making their spacing tight enough while at the same time fitting >> well with the 'heavy' impression of the musical score. >> >> 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. > > Vern, Eben, Dave, do you have suggestions? > > Besides a font with similar functionality as Minion, I would like to > find a font which resembles the `classical' text font used about 100 > years ago in Germany for virtually all vocal scores (see attachment). > Interestingly, I haven't seen a good replacement yet in *any* > computer-typesetted score. > > > Werner > <tito.jpg> _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
