Disasters, pt. 2; body-text fonts, pt. 19: Linux Libertine
Samuel is fine; he seems not to have been harmed at all by the toxic berries that he put into his mouth on Friday.
Thank you, readers, for your prayers and your concern.
Today, my children have been dumping their grits and eggs onto the floor, sometimes accidentally, sometimes not.
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This month’s typeface is Linux Libertine, which is free to download and use, and which supplies glyphs for virtually all characters of today’s Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Hebrew scripts (and some others). You’ve seen it in Wikipedia’s logo (which employs an alternate “W”).
I especially like the top serifs of Libertine’s “C” and “G” and the long-tailed “Q” of the “Qu” ligature. The “O” too is pleasingly not-quite-symmetrical.
On the other hand, I think the “Th” ligature is distracting and pointless. Disabling it while leaving other ligatures intact isn’t an option, but these letters can be pulled apart using a zero-point kern.
Libertine has a companion humanist sans-serif typeface: Linux Biolinum.
I don’t often see Libertine used as non-electronic body text, although linguists seem to like it because it prints such a wide range of letters, punctuation marks, etc. I own a couple of philosophic volumes from Princeton University Press that are set in Libertine.
Thank you, readers, for your prayers and your concern.
Today, my children have been dumping their grits and eggs onto the floor, sometimes accidentally, sometimes not.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
This month’s typeface is Linux Libertine, which is free to download and use, and which supplies glyphs for virtually all characters of today’s Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Hebrew scripts (and some others). You’ve seen it in Wikipedia’s logo (which employs an alternate “W”).
I especially like the top serifs of Libertine’s “C” and “G” and the long-tailed “Q” of the “Qu” ligature. The “O” too is pleasingly not-quite-symmetrical.
On the other hand, I think the “Th” ligature is distracting and pointless. Disabling it while leaving other ligatures intact isn’t an option, but these letters can be pulled apart using a zero-point kern.
Libertine has a companion humanist sans-serif typeface: Linux Biolinum.
I don’t often see Libertine used as non-electronic body text, although linguists seem to like it because it prints such a wide range of letters, punctuation marks, etc. I own a couple of philosophic volumes from Princeton University Press that are set in Libertine.
