Re: [NTG-context] two superscript versions with Garamond Libre

Am 19.05.2020 um 08:08 schrieb Jan U. Hasecke :

Am 18.05.20 um 22:23 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:

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Am 18.05.2020 um 17:18 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez :

Typeface is available at https://github.com/dbenjaminmiller/garamond-libre/releases/latest.

Thank you for the hint, I’m always looking for interesting fonts. This is a nicely designed classical Garamond with a big glyph repertoire (Latin, poly Greek, Cyrillic, Byzantine/Greek music symbols, math and other symbols), but after first tests I found flaws: – Numbers are a bit too dark; table numbers look a bit too big, oldstyle numbers a bit too small. – Small caps are lacking accented vowels including umlauts. – Cyrillic is missing Kyrgyz/Kazakh letters (i.e. Cyrillic extended). – Kerning is not yet perfect. – Accents sit a bit too close on the letters. – Swash capitals don’t fit the style at all, they look like some modern hand font like Lucida Handwriting.

Thanks a lot for your insights.

From the repo I guess that this is a quite new project; you could post bug reports.

That’s what I did. WRT swash capitals, the author told me: \startquotation I adopted this font, as a fork from an upstream which is no longer published under a libre license. Then I did make some slight extensions. But I didn't choose this. Right now, I am working on a new font, Salieri, which I hope will be of better quality once it is finished, and which, if it ever gets swash capitals, will get them according to some historically-rooted standard, most likely, though we are nowhere near that. \stopquotation I read this as “better don’t expect me to enhance anything substantial“. HR