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Gentium — Samples

Victor Gaultney, 2004-01-09; 107534 reads

‘Your typeface Gentium is a “friendly” font to me. It’s easy to read and its lines and visual connections flow gently.’

‘I needed a nice serif font with haceks and other diacriticals... and was very happy to find your Gentium. Thank you for making this available to us poorer academic perfectionists!’

‘Perhaps I shouldn’t care so, but esthetics matters. My refined thanks.’

Here are snapshot samples of Gentium in use. To see them at full resolution, download the complete type specimen:

Gentium Type Specimen (A5 format)
Victor Gaultney, 2003-09-11
Download "Gentium_RU_spec.pdf", Acrobat PDF document, 800KB [59351 downloads]

Gentium Regular

Source: Eleanor H. Porter, Just David (1916), pp. 1-2.

Gentium Regular with alternate diacritics

Gentium Italic

Gentium Italic

Gentium Greek

Source: Aratus, Phaenomena, from Gilbert Murray, et al., eds., The Oxford Book of Greek Verse (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1931), p. 509.

For a more detailed look at the Greek range of Gentium, download the Greek type specimen:

Gentium Greek Type Specimen (A4 format)
Victor Gaultney, 2003-09-11
Download "Gentium_spec_greek.pdf", Acrobat PDF document, 213KB [25985 downloads]

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