Isn't it frustrating and exciting to be involved with, or at least aware of or even using, something that is still in the process of developing? I love EBGaramond, and use it for many of my projects (using the SC variant in place of bold), but I am eagerly awaiting the bold release!
~Conor Cook > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Alexander Kobel <n...@a-kobel.de> > To: tisimst <tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com>, lilypond-user@gnu.org > Cc: > Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 10:45:31 +0100 > Subject: Re: EB Garamond font-series > On 2015-02-09 05:58, tisimst wrote: >> >> This is correct. LibreOffice does fake italic, bold, and bold-italic if >> that variant doesn't exist. LilyPond, however, makes no attempt at this >> and just reverts to the closest one that is installed, which is usually >> the "regular" variant. [...] >> >>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:27 AM, Thomas Spuhler <[hidden email]> wrote: >>> >>> Are you sure: >>> see attachment from libreoffice writer, normal and bold >>> >>> When there is no bold face present, a word processor might `fake' one >>> by modifying the regular (roman) face. I don't know if that is what >>> happened in your attachment, [...] > > > Yes - see attached. If you convert to SVG and open it in Inkscape, you can > see how the characters decompose into the original text (with additional > spacing between the characters) and an rounded outline. > > Depending on the font, this might yield acceptable results (professionals > will probably disagree) or not - what works for Comic Sans does not > necessarily work for Zapfino... IIUC, the less fine details in the font, the > less ugly is fake bold. > I'd refrain from using such a font in a situation where you really need a > bold face and cannot resort to small caps and/or different color instead > (yes, there are /real/ small caps in EB Garamond, those don't need to be > heuristically faked). > > > W.r.t. the state of bold in EB Garamond, your guesses are supported by the > following entry in the SCM <https://github.com/georgd/EB-Garamond>: > > Fonts in this repository: [...] > - EBGaramond12-Bold: Bold font for design size 12pt (very rough/unusable; not > included in releases) [...] > > The last commit on those files was 2 years ago. > > > Best, > Alexander > > _______________________________________________ > 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
