Aldus Leaf Crimson Text fonts

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Crimson Text oldstyle typeface

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Description

Crimson Text is a font family for book production in the tradition of beautiful oldstyle typefaces.

There are a lot of great free fonts around, but one kind is missing: those Garamond-inspired types with all the little niceties like oldstyle figures, small caps, fleurons, math characters and the like.

Crimson Text is inspired by the fantastic work of people like Jan Tschichold, Robert Slimbach and Jonathan Hoefler. We hope that with your help, Crimson Text will one day grow into a typographic workhorse for everyone.

(Description text is CC-BY-SA from upstream website, aldusleaf.org)

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Characteristics

Homepage	Format & features	License	Review reference	Koji page	pkgdb page
Aldus Leaf Crimson Text	OTF	OFL	④	⑤	⑥

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Style					Faces					Scripts
Sans		Serif		Other	R	B	I	BI	Other	Latin	Greek	Cyrillic	Other
Variable	Monospace	Variable	Monospace
		✘			✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘

Caveats

1. Please do not forget to include the appropriate fontconfig rules to the package
2. Please build the font from the sfd source published
3. Even though the authors do not believe in GPL embedding problems, the FSF does, so you should ask upstream politely to add the standard GPL font exception to their license

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Additional information

• From upstream, "Crimson Text is under heavy development, and the spacing/kerning is abysmal. If you use it in public these days, you'll likely embarass yourself." We'll probably need to update from upstream as the project progresses.
• Upstream roadmap:
  • Polytonic Greek
  • Cyrillic
  • Vietnamese
  • IPA
  • Whatever other script you can help out with :)
  • a Crimson Math font, with MATH table and XeTeX/unicode-math support, including optically scaled glyphs for equations
  • lots of symbols;
  • a "Crimson Titling" optical weight with engraved caps;
  • more ornaments.

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