Re: Suggest a condensed old style or transitional font for lyrics?

[Urs Liska]

Am 30.04.2015 um 18:20 schrieb tyronicus:
> Joshua Nichols wrote
> > I'm looking for something other than minion pro. It also needs to have
> > serifs (if not clear by the indication in the subject). What do you all
> > use
> > (free or otherwise)?
> I use Crimson, which imitates Minion in a lot of ways, so I'm not sure if
> it's what you're looking for.
>
> It's a little light, so I made it heavier and condensed it, then called the
> weight "Crimson Lyrics." I don't know anything about font licensing, but it
> looks like I would just need to change the name before I could legally make
> it available to you if you were interested.
>
> Here's an old blog post <http://samuelspeer.com/blog/2014/crimson-lyrics/>
> with a picture of the modifications, although I have tweaked it more since
> then. (I think I initially overdid it.)

Hey, from the blog post this looks like a nice font for lyrics. (I think 
Joshua didn't want to say that he doesn't _like_ the looks of Minion but 
I think he's looking for a free alternative).

Regarding the license: Crimson is licensed under the SIL Open Font 
License, so basically yes, you have to rename it, put an appropriate 
FONTLOG file beside and redistribute it under the same license.

I'd be happy to give it a try and test the font. (IISC you didn't make 
the file(s) available?

Urs

> --
> View this message in context: 
> http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Suggest-a-condensed-old-style-or-transitional-font-for-lyrics-tp175710p175719.html
> Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
> _______________________________________________
> lilypond-user mailing list
> address@hidden
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user