# Gentium Book Plus font

> The slightly darker book cut of Gentium Plus: a text serif with 4,244 glyphs across Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.

Gentium Book Plus is a serif text typeface from SIL International, a slightly heavier companion to Gentium Plus. Gentium Book Plus has two weights, Regular and Bold, each with an italic, and 4,244 glyphs covering Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese. Gentium Book Plus is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is made for books and multilingual texts.

## Facts

- Classification: [Serif](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/serif)
- Designed by: SIL International
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 4 (Regular 400, Bold 700; with italics)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 4244
- Character sets: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, greek-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
- Last updated: 2025-05-30
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Gentium+Book+Plus
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/gentium-book-plus
- Tagged for: Body text, Editorial

## About Gentium Book Plus

Gentium Book Plus is a serif typeface for continuous reading, with calligraphic stress, angled head serifs and a moderate x-height. It succeeds Gentium Book Basic, which covered only a limited range of Latin; the Plus version keeps the same four styles and extends them to the complete Gentium Plus character set. Each file holds 4,244 glyphs spanning Latin and Latin Extended, Cyrillic and its extension, modern and ancient Greek, and Vietnamese. According to the release notes, hinting for Windows was improved considerably as well. Compared with Gentium Plus, the Book cut is a little heavier on the page. The family is static, not variable: Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. SIL International publishes the fonts, and the font file names Victor Gaultney, Annie Olsen, Iska Routamaa and Becca Hirsbrunner as designers.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright (c) 2003-2022 SIL International (http://www.sil.org/), with Reserved Font Names "Gentium" and "SIL".

Allowed:
- Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
- Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
- Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions:
- The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
- A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
- The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it works

- **Books and long-form text**: A slightly darker regular weight holds up in print and on screen, and true italics and bold cover normal text emphasis.
- **Polytonic Greek and classics**: The Greek Extended block is included, so ancient Greek with breathings and accents sets in the same face as the commentary.
- **Linguistics and dictionaries**: With 4,244 glyphs, many accented and phonetic Latin letters are available without falling back to another font.
- **Multilingual documents**: Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese share one design, which keeps a report or textbook visually consistent across languages.

## Things to know

- **Two weights only**: The family stops at Regular and Bold with their italics. There are no light, medium or black cuts.
- **Larger files**: The wide character set makes each font file bigger than its Basic predecessor; subsetting keeps web delivery small.
- **Replaces Gentium Book Basic**: The Basic family lacked Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Greek; Gentium Book Plus adds all three.

## FAQs

### Is Gentium Book Plus free for commercial use?

Yes. Gentium Book Plus is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The fonts cannot be sold on their own, and modified versions stay under the same license and may not use the Reserved Font Name "Gentium" without permission.

### Who designed Gentium Book Plus?

Gentium Book Plus is published by SIL International. The designer field in the font names Victor Gaultney, Annie Olsen, Iska Routamaa and Becca Hirsbrunner.

### What is the difference between Gentium Plus and Gentium Book Plus?

Gentium Book Plus is the same design drawn slightly heavier. Gentium Plus is the lighter of the two.

### How many weights does Gentium Book Plus have?

Gentium Book Plus has two weights, Regular 400 and Bold 700, each with an italic, for four styles in total. It is not a variable font.

### Which languages does Gentium Book Plus support?

Gentium Book Plus includes the letters needed for Latin-script languages from English and French to Polish, Turkish and Vietnamese, for Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian, and for Greek, including ancient Greek.

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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/gentium-book-plus (trendhub)