Gentium is a proprietary Unicode font designed by Victor Gaultney and copyright SIL International. It is considered freeware. Its license forbids modification and no cost may be charged in its distribution. The font is intended to remain free of charge.

Gentium defines roughly 1,500 glyphs covering almost all of the range of Latin characters used worldwide, as well as monotonic and polytonic Greek, designed to flow in harmony with the Latin. Support for Cyrillic is under development.

Gentium comes with a second font, GentiumAlt (for Gentium Alternative), which offers glyph variants.

Sample

The following paragraph is in GentiumAlt if it is installed on your machine. If not, a monospace font is used:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. 这是一些汉字。 Zhè shì yì xiē Hànzì. Example of IPA transcription: /ɪg'zɑːmpəl əv aɪpiː'eɪ tɹɑːn'skɹɪpʃən/. Greek: Ελληνικά. Cyrillic: Кириллица. Thai: ฟหกดึ้. Khmer: កខ. Arabic: العربية.

External links

• Gentium — a typeface for the nations