![]() ![]() ![]() The punctuation is too colorful, even though the letters are quite nice, it has small caps, and it has "ct" and "st" ligatures which make liturgical typesetting look just conservative enough without being hard to read, as much as I am a fan of the long initial and medial s that was supplanted by the "st" ligature. The ampersand, the quotation marks (including guillemets depending on how you typeset Latin), and the double punctuation marks (exclamation and question marks, colon, semi-colon) merit consideration ironically, this rules out Hoefler's Requiem font. Do you like the punctuation? It shouldn't stand out in a liturgical booklet, but it shouldn't be shockingly ugly, and the dagger and start need to be (at least) serviceable, else you'll be borrowing it from another font, which is just ridiculous considering the number of times that you'll use it. 4 (in old style figures) would make for a very elegant presentation of the introit for the Mass of Jesus Christ Eternal High Priest. Do you have old-style proportional figures, which can be used as a contrast to Roman numerals? For example, Ps CIX, v. ![]() Real small caps are generally de rigueur with professional fonts it's hit and miss with free fonts. The kerning, that is, the letter spacing, is set by the designer in a way that won't be entirely subject to the whim of your program and your OS's handling of type EB Garamond has this problem. Now, some free Google fonts have decent paid work behind them, but the reality is that free fonts tend to pale in comparison to professional fonts. That's not free, which is what upsets people, but you now have this font for a long, long time, if not for "life." You might need one display weight, which brings you out to 200€, and non-EU customers can get the VAT refunded apparently. Anything above that would now be included customarily, but it's inauthentic to traditional typography before the nineteenth century, so one can certainly do without. One need not purchase all of the weights text regular, italic and maybe medium are all that one would ordinarily need. There are only so many hours in a day, and things languish or are not seen as necessary, and when they are discovered, they take forever to insert. It is free and open-source, meaning that it is a pure labor of love, but with no financial incentive of any kind, it's not the designers' actual job. The closeness of the equivalent depends on which font you trying to match.As are virtually all well-made fonts. ** "Garamond" amd "Goudy" are generic for fonts inspired by particular designers. Goudy Bookletter 1911, Linden Hill, Sort Mills Liberation Sans,* Pt Sans, Open Sans Condensed, LatoĬabin, Gillius ADF, Hammersmith One, Railway Regular, Raleway The list is as complete as I can make it If you have any other equivalents, let me know and I'll add them to the list. ![]() Most of these fonts can be found on Google Fonts. For this reason, the listings in the table below are mostly the closest equivalents, and rarely exact replicas. A few proprietary fonts, such as Optima, have no free equivalent at all, so far as I can see. In other cases, the free fonts are inspired by their proprietary counterparts, but the designer never intended exact copies, and the most you can expect is a general resemblance. Some equivalents, such as the Liberation fonts, are only metrical – that is, they take up the same space as their proprietary equivalents, but the letters themselves are different. Moreover, free software advocates prefer free fonts to go along with their free applications.Įxact equivalents are rare because of fear of copyright restrictions. This demand is unlikely to disapear because, although most professional designers think in terms of proprietary fonts, clients are often unwilling to pay for them. Today, original free fonts are becoming increasingly common, but the demand for free equivalents of proprietary fonts remains. Like Linux desktops, free-licensed fonts started as imitations of proprietary equivalents. ![]()
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