Gentium Book

SIL Language Technology · A serif typeface for Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek, installed as eight regular, italic, medium, semibold, and bold font files.

CaskFontsApple silicon · Intel
From homebrew/cask
30-day installs0
1-year installs54Last 365 days
Latest version7.000Jun 12, 2025 · Jun 12, 2025
Download size12MBarm64 / x86_64 · zip
Release cadenceIrregular0 releases in 30 days

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.

An open-source interface for Homebrew. Installs run through the macOS app or the brew command.

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