Gentium Book
SIL Language Technology · A serif typeface for Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek, installed as eight regular, italic, medium, semibold, and bold font files.
About
Gentium Book is a serif typeface designed for readable text in Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts. The family is intended for multilingual publishing and includes characters and symbols useful for linguistics and literacy work.
- The supplied font files cover regular, italic, medium, semibold, and bold styles, with italic files for regular, medium, semibold, and bold.
- The official site describes support for Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek, including diacritics and OpenType features such as small caps and diacritic positioning.
- Its design emphasizes readability, with relatively open letterforms and a compact overall appearance.
Install it with brew install --cask font-gentium-book. This cask installs the eight font files into ~/Library/Fonts. After installation, select Gentium Book in the font menu of a compatible application to use it; this installs a font, not a standalone app.
The installed files are the styles listed above; the cask does not install every possible Gentium family variant. Font support for scripts and features does not guarantee coverage of every character or behavior in every application.
Sources: Gentium official site
New What’s new in 7.000 Jun 12, 2025 · OpenNavo editorial
- FamilyGentium Book Plus is renamed Gentium Book.
- FeaturesKerning expands to alphabetic symbols except small caps.
- CaveatsFamily structure and line metrics change from v6.2.