Gentium Book Plus

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Specification

Designer

SIL International

Foundry

SIL International

Released

2022

Category

Serif

License

OFL-1.1

Commercial use

Allowed

Good for

Long-form reading, Academic text, Body text, Multilingual setting

Weights

400, 700

Styles

Normal, Italic

Variable

No

Glyphs

4,307

Languages

Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Vietnamese

Download size

1.7 MB

Source

github.com/google/fonts/tree/main/ofl/gentiumbookplus

Questions

Is Gentium Book Plus free for commercial use?

Yes. Gentium Book Plus is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.

Can I use Gentium Book Plus in a logo?

Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Gentium Book Plus belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to SIL International. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.

How do I install Gentium Book Plus?

Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 4 font files inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up.

Does Gentium Book Plus support Turkish?

Yes. Gentium Book Plus includes the characters Türkçe needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.

What languages does Gentium Book Plus support?

Gentium Book Plus covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended and Vietnamese, across 4,307 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.

Does Gentium Book Plus support Cyrillic?

Yes. Gentium Book Plus includes the Cyrillic alphabet, and the Cyrillic Extended set as well, which adds the letters for languages beyond Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Serbian. This was read from the font file itself. The complete WOFF2 and the zip both carry it; only the Latin-only web file leaves it out.

What weights does Gentium Book Plus come in?

Gentium Book Plus comes in 2 weights: Regular (400) and Bold (700). Each weight is its own file in the download.

Is there a smaller, Latin-only version of Gentium Book Plus?

Yes — the "WOFF2 · Latin only" button on this page. It is 84 KB against 308 KB for the complete file, 73% smaller, with every weight the family has still in it. It covers Latin and Latin Extended, which is everything a page in English, Turkish or a western European language sets — Türkçe included, since ı, İ, ğ and ş all live in that range. Take the complete file instead if you set Cyrillic, Greek or any alphabet outside Latin.

Where can I download Gentium Book Plus as WOFF2?

From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is gentium-book-plus.woff2, and it is about 308 KB. It is the complete font repacked for the web rather than a cut-down copy: the same glyphs, the same spacing and the same hinting as the .ttf in the download, roughly 60% smaller. Every browser still receiving updates reads WOFF2, so it is the only web format most sites need. Google Fonts does not offer this file for download at all — it serves WOFF2 from its own servers and gives you .ttf if you ask for the family.