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. Something proprietary is something exclusively owned by someone, often with connotations that it is exclusive and cannot be used by other parties without negotiations. ... In computing, Unicode is the international standard whose goal is to provide the means to encode the text of every document people want to store in computers. ... In typography, a typeface is a co-ordinated set of character designs, which usually comprises an alphabet of letters, a set of numerals and a set of punctuation marks. ... For copyright issues in relation to Wikipedia itself, see Wikipedia:copyrights. ... SIL International is a non-profit, faith-based, scientific organization with the main purpose to study, develop and document lesser-known languages for the purpose of expanding linguistic knowledge, promoting world literacy and aiding minority language development. ... freeware doesnt exist ...

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. A glyph is a carved figure or character, incised or in relief; a carved pictograph; hence, a pictograph representing a form originally adopted for sculpture, whether carved or painted. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world. ... Monotonic orthography is the simplified way for spelling modern Greek introduced in the 1980s. ... Polytonic orthography for Greek uses a variety of diacritics (πολύ = many + τόνος = accent) to represent aspects of Ancient Greek pronunciation. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ...

Gentium comes with a second font, GentiumAlt (for Gentium Alternative), which contains flatter diacritics intended to improve the appearance of letters with multiple diacritics, as well as a glyph variant of the Greek circumflex that resembles an inverted breve. A diacritical mark or accent mark is an additional mark added to a basic letter. ... The circumflex ( ˆ ) is a diacritic mark used in written Greek, French, Esperanto, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Vietnamese, Japanese romaji, Welsh, Portuguese, Italian, and other languages. ... This article is about the breve breve in music, see double whole note. ...

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The following paragraph is in Gentium 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. The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. 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. Scandinavian characters: ÅÄÆÖØ åäæöø. Lorem ipsum (lipsum for short) is the standard placeholder text used since the 1500s in the publishing and graphic design industry. ... The phrase The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog or A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog was frequently used to test typewriters, because it is a coherent short sentence that uses all the letters in the English language alphabet. ... 漢字 in Traditional Chinese and other languages. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet is a phonetic alphabet used by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) the human vocal apparatus can produce. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... Categories: Stub | Khmer Language | Abugida writing systems ... The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing the Arabic language. ... Scandinavian can mean: A resident of, or relating to Scandinavia A North Germanic language An airline Scandinavian Airlines System A music genre, Scandinavian metal A chess opening, Scandinavian Defense This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

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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. The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. 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. Scandinavian characters: ÅÄÆÖØ åäæöø. Lorem ipsum (lipsum for short) is the standard placeholder text used since the 1500s in the publishing and graphic design industry. ... The phrase The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog or A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog was frequently used to test typewriters, because it is a coherent short sentence that uses all the letters in the English language alphabet. ... 漢字 in Traditional Chinese and other languages. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet is a phonetic alphabet used by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) the human vocal apparatus can produce. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... Categories: Stub | Khmer Language | Abugida writing systems ... The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing the Arabic language. ... Scandinavian can mean: A resident of, or relating to Scandinavia A North Germanic language An airline Scandinavian Airlines System A music genre, Scandinavian metal A chess opening, Scandinavian Defense This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

External links

• Gentium — a typeface for the nations (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium)