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as the previous Gentium fonts, while Gentium Book Basic is set at a slightly heavier weight for use in publishing books at small point sizes, or under certain printing conditions. While these fonts contain bold and bold italic variants, they do not contain the full range of glyphs, especially most
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Since the initial release of the Gentium Plus fonts, the focus of the project has shifted to completing bold and bold italic weights of the Gentium Plus family, as well as the creation of a "Gentium Book Plus" family with a slightly heavier weight which may be useful at small sizes. These are the
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to the name of the font in the font-selection window. (Features are appended with a colon and linked with an ampersand – see images at right.) Alternatively, customized versions of the fonts can be created with
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In November 2007, the Gentium Basic and Gentium Book Basic fonts were released, containing Gentium fonts in four faces: regular, italic, bold, and bold italic. Gentium Basic has the same
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and are intended to provide a boldface weight for general applications in the interim while the full bold and bold italic character set is developed.
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on November 28, 2005. Older typefaces that support the same character inventory, and also released under the OFL, are
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The ongoing development of the font welcomes contributions from its users. Gentium was released under the
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intended to improve the appearance of letters with multiple diacritics, as well as a glyph variant of the
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2010-11-01 (Gentium Plus 1.502), 2008-04-03 (Gentium Basic 1.100), 2002-09-16 (Gentium 1.00)
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In 2003, the Gentium font was awarded a Certificate of Excellence in Type Design from the
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weights that are currently available in the Gentium Basic and Gentium Book Basic fonts.
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Variant forms of many characters can be chosen in the word-processor. For example, for
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Gentium Book Plus font with 'a' and 'g' set to primer style
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An updated version of the roman and italic fonts called
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Gentium (disambiguation)

Category
Serif
Classification
Old-style
Designer(s)
License
Open Font License
Gentium sample text
software.sil.org/gentium/
/ˈɛntiəm/
Latin
Unicode
typeface
free
open source
SIL Open Font License
Latin
Greek
Cyrillic
International Phonetic Alphabet
glyphs
OpenType
Graphite
glyphs
Latin
monotonic
polytonic Greek
diacritics

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