[sword-devel] Bishop 1.4.0 and SWORD Utility Modules

[Michael H]

I like PT Serif and PT Sans because they have a wide coverage in Latin, and
Cyrillic, including many minority languages. These fonts also have
complimentary narrow and caption faces that are handy for proper
typesetting, and a pretty well done kerning table, which really helps for
extended reading and pushing the font as small as possible.

The Font with the best unicode coverage in Latin that I like the best is
EBGaramond. (mated with Ysabeau for Sans.) But this is a tall font, and for
screens that's not the most accepted way to view. (Phone screens today can
(almost always) handle it, but the low res has created an expectation of
short and fat letters, not tall letters.)

Another very good unicode coverage font for latin text is Garava (
http://www.softerviews.org/Fonts.html ) It's shaped better for screens.
I've wanted to use the included illuminated capitals, but I don't get as
much time for development as I'd like. It's a good choice to include as an
alternative, but I wouldn't recommend it for an ONLY choice.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 10:13 PM Michael Johnson <Michael at ebible.org> wrote:

> On 3/19/20 4:41 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> > Does anyone have a special place in their heart for a favorite font they
> > would recommend?  It should be freely usable, have a good coverage of
> > Unicode and preferably already converted to a web font.
>
> I have been using DejaVu Serif a lot. It is plain, very readable, and has
> good Unicode coverage for several writing systems. It is also free.
>
> https://eBible.org/fonts/dejavuserif.ttf
>
> https://eBible.org/fonts/dejavuserif.woff
>
> https://eBible.org/fonts/dejavuserif.woff2
>
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