![]() ![]() A professional font will also have a properly done "fi" ligature, which shows up often enough, even in lowercase when it's not in reference to the Son of God. The punctuation is too colorful, even though the letters are quite nice, it has small caps, and it has "ct" and "st" ligatures which make liturgical typesetting look just conservative enough without being hard to read, as much as I am a fan of the long initial and medial s that was supplanted by the "st" ligature. The ampersand, the quotation marks (including guillemets depending on how you typeset Latin), and the double punctuation marks (exclamation and question marks, colon, semi-colon) merit consideration ironically, this rules out Hoefler's Requiem font. Do you like the punctuation? It shouldn't stand out in a liturgical booklet, but it shouldn't be shockingly ugly, and the dagger and start need to be (at least) serviceable, else you'll be borrowing it from another font, which is just ridiculous considering the number of times that you'll use it. 4 (in old style figures) would make for a very elegant presentation of the introit for the Mass of Jesus Christ Eternal High Priest. Do you have old-style proportional figures, which can be used as a contrast to Roman numerals? For example, Ps CIX, v. Real small caps are generally de rigueur with professional fonts it's hit and miss with free fonts. The kerning, that is, the letter spacing, is set by the designer in a way that won't be entirely subject to the whim of your program and your OS's handling of type EB Garamond has this problem. Now, some free Google fonts have decent paid work behind them, but the reality is that free fonts tend to pale in comparison to professional fonts. That's not free, which is what upsets people, but you now have this font for a long, long time, if not for "life." You might need one display weight, which brings you out to 200€, and non-EU customers can get the VAT refunded apparently. Anything above that would now be included customarily, but it's inauthentic to traditional typography before the nineteenth century, so one can certainly do without. One need not purchase all of the weights text regular, italic and maybe medium are all that one would ordinarily need. There are only so many hours in a day, and things languish or are not seen as necessary, and when they are discovered, they take forever to insert. It is free and open-source, meaning that it is a pure labor of love, but with no financial incentive of any kind, it's not the designers' actual job.
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