Gentium Basic Font
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About Gentium Basic Font
Gentium Basic Font is a Professional font and was created on . Since then, it has been downloaded 10,698 times and added to 200 collections. 5 people have liked Gentium Basic Font and given it a thumbs up.
Gentium Basic Font was recently updated on Feb 13, 2012
4 font family styles
Regular Style
Bold Style
Bold Italic Style
Italic Style
More info from SIL International
The Gentium Basic font family is based on the original Gentium design, but with additional weights. The family comes with a complete regular, bold, italic and bold italic set of fonts.
The supported character set, however, is much smaller than for the main Gentium Plus fonts. These "Basic" fonts support only the Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement Unicode ranges, plus a selection of the more commonly used extended Latin characters, with miscellaneous diacritical marks, symbols and punctuation. In particular, these fonts do not support full extended Latin IPA, complete support for Central European languages, Greek and Cyrillic.
The "Gentium Book Basic" family is very similar but has a slightly darker weight.
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Gentium is a rather good multilingual free font
for body text. But still,
- the font lacks kerning
- the weights of some letters in the Bold Italic cut
vary too much (e.g. the thick 'l' and thin 'o')