Urs,
Not sure if this would be of any help to you, but here's a condensed
variant of the full Vollkorn family.
Regards,
Abraham
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Urs Liska [via Lilypond]
<ml-node+s1069038n16874...@n5.nabble.com> wrote:
>
> Am 16.11.2014 01:10, schrieb Noeck:
>
> > Hi Urs,
> >
> > you once asked for nice fonts which come in several »degrees of
> > boldness«. You chose Minion Pro, if I remember correctly. I just
> found
> > »Vollkorn« which comes in 8 type faces:
> http://vollkorn-typeface.com
> > I let you decide how you like it – I would say it is worth
> looking at.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Joram
> >
>
> Hi Joram,
>
> Vollkorn is a good font, and I can imagine it works well with
> LilyPond
> (due to its inherent weight).
> But the main issue I am looking for is the combination of weights and
> a
> condensed variant.
>
> Having a condensed font is a huge benefit when trying to fit more
> music
> with lyrics on the page (because with LilyPond's default font lyrics
> generally need more horizontal space than the corresponding music.
> Minion Pro is extremely good because it also provides a nicely graded
> set of weights *onto* the condensed width. With that you can really
> fine-tune the appearance of all the different items like lyrics,
> barnumbers, textscripts etc. to form a consistent overall appearance
> with LilyPond's music. However, I'd still like to have a free
> alternative to that one for better usability.
>
> Recently I got a version of Linux Libertine that has been "condensed"
> by
> Abraham Lee, unfortunately I didn't have time to really test it so
> far.
> But this may actually be a good thing because I find Linux Libertine
> to
> be a very nice complement to LilyPond too.
>
> Best
> Urs
>
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