Um, how do you like the 'g'?
It seems to me that upper case R's are amongst the most difficult and least succesful letters of most any font, even of those fonts one really likes.
[Ben Whitworth's sample]
(I know, I know, I am convinced by all the arguments for the superiority of Gregorio, but I am a humanities graduate and LaTeX makes my brain hurt).
No but seriously, do I need to make a video or something?
I'm sure it's common knowledge, but what does Solesmes use?
'... but what does Solesmes use?'
'Does anyone know?'
I used Garamond for my Holy Thursday and Good Friday programs, Book Antiqua for the Easter Vigil, and Calisto on Easter Sunday,
Am I the only person who doesn't really care too much about font so long as it's readable? I certainly do like some better than others but it's not something that keeps me up at night.
'...music and liturgy either, as long as I can hear all of it.'
I suspect that Garamond is used in many religious projects because people admire the typesetting of the (Episcopal Church) Book of Common Prayer 1976,
For mixed-case displayed text, the fonts Trattatello, Luminari, Manuskript Gothisch also seem Catholic
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This reminds me of our yearly press release, which almost always gets edited to "sing a long Messiah".read aloud (which is not the same as read out, loud....)
which font to use for Cyrillic
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