[Pkg-fonts-bugs] ITP: fonts-sil-gentium-plus-compact: smart font family for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic (tight spacing version)

[Nicolas Spalinger]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Nicolas Spalinger <nicolas.spalinger at sil.org>

* Package name    : fonts-sil-gentium-plus-compact
  Version         : 1.504
  Upstream Author : Victor Gaultney, Annie Olsen, Iska Routamaa, SIL
font engineers, SIL International
* URL             : http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium
* License         : Open Font License 1.1
  Description     : smart font family for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic
(tight spacing version)


Description:

Gentium ("belonging to the nations" in Latin) is a Unicode typeface
family designed to enable the many diverse ethnic groups around the
world who use the Latin script to produce readable, high-quality
publications. The design is intended to be highly readable, reasonably
compact, and visually attractive. Gentium has won a "Certificate of
Excellence in Typeface Design" in two major international typeface
design competitions: bukva:raz! (2001) and TDC2003 (2003). The goal is
to provide a single Unicode-based font family that contains a
comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any Roman- or
Cyrillic-based writing system, whether used for phonetic or orthographic
needs, and provide a matching Greek face. In addition, there is
provision for other characters and symbols useful to linguists. This
font makes use of state-of-the-art font technologies to support complex
typographic issues, such as the need to position arbitrary combinations
of base glyphs and diacritics optimally.

Gentium Plus is based on the original Gentium design. However, it now
has the full OpenType and Graphite support that Doulos SIL and Charis
SIL contain — including full IPA support.

Gentium Plus Compact is a dedicated derivative with line spacing metrics
modified to "Tight" via TypeTuner. More font sources (including web
fonts and corresponding examples) are available in the main Gentium Plus
release.