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Gentium — Glyph Inventory

Victor Gaultney, 2004-01-09; 42244 reads

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‘Your font is definitely the most complete and good-looking I’ve found for my uses in Classical Greek.’

‘...the various letters in the Extended-Latin and IPA ranges look “native” to the font.’

‘...diacritic Nirvana...’

Gentium provides glyphs for a wide range of Latin and Greek characters. It currently supports the following ranges of Unicode 3.0 (completely unless noted). See the Gentium Basic page for information on which characters are supported by those fonts.

Range	Description
U+0020-U+007F	Basic Latin
U+00A0-U+00FF	Latin-1 Supplement
U+0100-U+017F	Latin Extended-A
U+0180-U+021F	Latin Extended-B
U+0222-U+0233	Latin Extended-B (continued)
U+0250-U+02AD	IPA Extensions
U+02B0-U+02FF	Spacing Modifier Letters
U+0300-U+036F	Combining Diacritical Marks
U+0370-U+03D5	Greek (not including archaic or Coptic)
U+1E00-U+1EFF	Latin Extended Additional
U+1F00-U+1FFF	Greek Extended
U+2000-U+203A	General Punctuation (partial)
U+2070-U+209F	Superscripts and Subscripts
U+20A0-U+20CF	Currency Symbols (partial)
U+2100-U+214F	Letterlike Symbols (only a couple)

Gentium Regular also includes some Cyrillic glyphs, but they are only early drafts. A future version will include a completely revised set, including italic, and will expand the support for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic to Unicode 5.1.

The following thumbnails will direct you to partial snapshots of Gentium’s glyph sets, but if you want an exhaustive showing of all glyphs in all fonts download the A3 proofs: