Gentium Plus

serif
2001

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Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789.,;:?!@#$%^&*()

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Details

Designer
Victor Gaultney
Release Year
2001
Category
serif
Description
A Unicode serif typeface family, Gentium Plus was designed by Victor Gaultney and released under the SIL Open Font License. It supports Latin, Greek, Cyrillic alphabets, IPA, and many other languages. The font is optimized for readability at small point sizes with wide counters, low stroke contrast, and long ascenders for diacritics stacking. Released in 2010, Gentium Plus includes over 5,500 glyphs and advanced typographic features through OpenType. The font comes with a variant called GentiumAlt for improved readability of letters with multiple diacritics.

Best Use Cases

  • Website and app interfaces
  • Editorial design
  • Corporate branding

Usage Instructions

Gentium Plus is suitable for digital and print designs, particularly in multilingual contexts. It works well for editorial design, corporate identity, and web and app interfaces that require a serif font with wide language support.

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