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Gentium Book Plus

SIL International · SIL International · 2022 · OFL-1.1

SIL drew Gentium for linguists: people setting languages whose diacritics stack two and three deep, who need the marks to be correct rather than merely present. The Book cut is the heavier of the two, made so the face still has colour on paper, and it reads as a written old-style: the stress runs diagonally, the head serifs on the lowercase are angled, and the whole thing looks drawn with a pen rather than constructed. Its Greek covers polytonic, which most Latin-first families do not attempt at all.

Download Gentium Book Plus · 1.7 MB · 4 files

4 separate files · 2 weights + italic

One file per style, the traditional way. Install the ones you need. Works everywhere, including older versions of Word, Photoshop and Canva.

The license file is inside the zip.

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Alphabets

Style

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Weight — 400

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

Size ladder

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12

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Characters

Uppercase

  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • X
  • Y
  • Z

Lowercase

  • a
  • b
  • c
  • d
  • e
  • f
  • g
  • h
  • i
  • j
  • k
  • l
  • m
  • n
  • o
  • p
  • q
  • r
  • s
  • t
  • u
  • v
  • w
  • x
  • y
  • z

Numerals

  • 0
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9

Punctuation & symbols

  • .
  • ,
  • :
  • ;
  • !
  • ?
  • '
  • "
  • ‘
  • ’
  • “
  • ”
  • (
  • )
  • [
  • ]
  • {
  • }
  • /
  • \
  • |
  • -
  • –
  • —
  • _
  • @
  • #
  • $
  • %
  • &
  • *
  • +
  • =
  • <
  • >
  • ~
  • ^
  • `
  • €
  • £
  • ¥
  • ©
  • ®
  • °
  • §
  • †
  • •
  • …

Use it on the web

Self-hosted

You serve the file yourself. Nothing depends on this site staying up, and you get the whole character set — all Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Vietnamese.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Gentium Book Plus';
  /* The download contains .ttf files. Put yours wherever you serve static
     files from and point this at it. Converting to .woff2 first cuts the
     size by roughly 60% and every current browser supports it. */
  src: url('/fonts/gentium-book-plus.woff2') format('woff2');
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: 'Gentium Book Plus', serif;
}

Hosted by us

One line, nothing to upload. Put this in your <head>:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://thatsmyfont.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://thatsmyfont.com/fontfiles/gentium-book-plus.css">

Then use it in your CSS:

body {
  font-family: 'Gentium Book Plus', serif;
}

One thing to know: the file we host is cut down to Latin characters so pages load quickly. Gentium Book Plus also covers Türkçe, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Vietnamese, and for those you need the download and the self-hosted route.

License

OFL-1.1

You may use, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial work. You may not sell the font file on its own, and any modified version must be released under the same license and under a different name.

Commercial use allowed

Designed by SIL International

Copyright (c) 2003-2022 SIL International

Read the full license text · What these licenses mean

The license file is included inside the download.

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.
Does Gentium Book Plus support Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended and Vietnamese?
Yes. 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.

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