[A12n-forum] Gentium font - information

["Don Osborn" <dzo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

An interview with the creator of the Gentium font in the current LISA
Newsletter may be of interest:
http://www.lisa.org/archive_domain/newsletters/2003/4.3/gaultney.html

The leader for the article follows.  The Gentium font itself, which is very
useful for many African languages, can be downloaded for free at:
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium

"Gentium: Providing Type to the World: Interview with Victor Gaultney,
creator of Gentium"
Gentium is a Unicode typeface that contains Roman, Greek and Cyrillic
characters, including many characters seldom seen in even the most ambitious
typefaces. Far from being a luxury, these characters are needed to write
many of the over 6,000 languages thought to exist in the world. In this
interview, Victor Gaultney, who originally created the typeface as part of a
masters program at Reading University, discusses the Gentium project, the
task of making a typeface look "right" for various areas, and how the
creation of typefaces for less common languages can help eliminate the
"Digital Divide."