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Gentium — Download

Victor Gaultney, 2004-03-16; 394094 reads

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‘Many thanks. I have an aesthetic dislike of “Times” fonts and a scholar‘s budget. Now I have Gentium and I‘m pleased as punch.’

‘I appreciate your project, that of making a font suitable for many languages, including smaller ones.’




License details:

Gentium is released under the SIL Open Font License - please read it carefully and do not download the fonts unless you agree to the terms of the license:

This Font Software is Copyright (c) 2003-2005, SIL International (http://scripts.sil.org/).
All Rights Reserved.

"Gentium" is a Reserved Font Name for this Font Software.
"SIL" is a Reserved Font Name for this Font Software.

SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE

Version 1.0 - 22 November 2005

PREAMBLE

The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide
development of cooperative font projects, to support the font creation
efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide an open
framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership with
others.

The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The
fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded,
redistributed and sold with any software provided that the font
names of derivative works are changed. The fonts and derivatives,
however, cannot be released under any other type of license.

DEFINITIONS

"Font Software" refers to any and all of the following:

  • font files
  • data files
  • source code
  • build scripts
  • documentation

"Reserved Font Name" refers to the Font Software name as seen by
users and any other names as specified after the copyright statement.

"Standard Version" refers to the collection of Font Software
components as distributed by the Copyright Holder.

"Modified Version" refers to any derivative font software made by
adding to, deleting, or substituting — in part or in whole --
any of the components of the Standard Version, by changing formats
or by porting the Font Software to a new environment.

"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical
writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.

PERMISSION & CONDITIONS

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify,
redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font
Software, subject to the following conditions:

1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
in Standard or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.

2) Standard or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,
redistributed and sold with any software, provided that each copy
contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be
included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or
in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or
binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.

3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font
Name(s), in part or in whole, unless explicit written permission is
granted by the Copyright Holder. This restriction applies to all
references stored in the Font Software, such as the font menu name and
other font description fields, which are used to differentiate the
font from others.

4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder or the Author(s) of the Font
Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any
Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the
Copyright Holder and the Author(s) or with their explicit written
permission.

5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,
must be distributed using this license, and may not be distributed
under any other license.

TERMINATION

This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are
not met.

DISCLAIMER

THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.

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No user information or formal registration is required to use the fonts, but please fill out the following form to let us know your priorities. If you provide your email address then you will be subscribed to the private gentium-announce list, but your email address will not be given out to anyone else, and will not be used for any purpose except to inform you of the latest developments in the Gentium project.

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Thank you for your interest in Gentium.

Download

If you agree to the terms of use (described above), then download the fonts from the following links:

Gentium Basic Fonts

Two new font families - Gentium Basic and Gentium Book Basic - are now available. See the Gentium Basic page.

Gentium 1.02 (Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux)
Victor Gaultney, 2005-11-28
Download "Gentium_102_W.zip", ZIP archive, 965KB [234409 downloads]

This is mainly for Windows users, but the fonts can be directly installed on both Mac OS X and many GNU/Linux distributions. Documentation has DOS line endings.

Gentium 1.02 (Windows installer)
Victor Gaultney, 2008-05-16
Download "Gentium_102.exe", Windows application, 536KB [3482 downloads]

As above, but packaged as a Windows installer.

Gentium 1.02 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Victor Gaultney, 2005-11-28
Download "Gentium_102_M.sit", Stuffit archive, 837KB [39908 downloads]

This is identical to the Windows package, but wraps up the fonts in a traditional Macintosh suitcase. Required for Mac OS 9, optional for Mac OS X. Documentation has Macintosh line endings. Note - original .zip replaced with .sit to work better on some Mac OS 9 systems.

Gentium 1.02 - Debian/Ubuntu package (GNU/Linux)
Victor Gaultney, Nicolas Spalinger, 2005-11-28
Download "ttf-gentium_1.02-4_all.deb", Debian Linux Package, 671KB [11325 downloads]

This package is all that is needed for Ubuntu (as well as other Debian-based GNU/Linux distributions). If you are interested in other types of packages, source tarballs and other information please consult the Gentium GNU/Linux page. Documentation has Unix line endings.

Installation and Use

Once the package has been downloaded, you will need a decompression utility such as WinZip (Windows) or Stuffit Expander (Macintosh) to expand the archive. Mac OS X will automatically expand the archive. Windows XP has a built-in archive expander. Within the archive are the font files and a Read Me. The Read Me includes basic instructions for installing the fonts (also repeated here). GNU/Linux users should review our Gentium GNU/Linux page for specific instructions and detailed information.

Note that these packages only include the fonts themselves. If you want to use the fonts to type languages that use special non-European letters, or to type Greek, then you may need a separate keyboard manager. More information on this can be found on our Support page.

You may also wish to download type specimens that show the full complement of glyphs in Gentium and include samples of the fonts in use. They are included in the GNU/Linux packages. These documents do not, however, give any technical assistance.

Gentium Type Specimen (A5 format)
Victor Gaultney, 2003-09-11
Download "Gentium_RU_spec.pdf", Acrobat PDF document, 800KB [35025 downloads]
Gentium Proofs (A3 format)
Victor Gaultney, 2003-09-11
Download "Gentium_RU_proofs.pdf", Acrobat PDF document, 748KB [16880 downloads]
Gentium Greek Type Specimen (A4 format)
Victor Gaultney, 2003-09-11
Download "Gentium_spec_greek.pdf", Acrobat PDF document, 213KB [17158 downloads]


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