What is the Librum E font?
The major focus of my life and ministry at this point is book design. In the brave new world of 21st century self-publishing a new paradigm has arisen: the indie small shop. One of the problems is that all books are published as ebooks, and many books are published only as ebooks. There are two problems with this: character availability and licensing.
The licensing problem is solved by including an ebook license with all of the Librum, Librum E, Librum Sans and Bream fonts. More…
The character availability is the core of the design. OpenType features do not work yet with ePUBs [though it is in the spec, if I understand correctly]. Kerning doesn’t work, and so on.
So these five fonts have only the 256-character [or less] ASCII set. A separate small caps is included. It has lining figures {proportional} and small caps instead of the graphics. The other four fonts have graphics to give bullet choices in lists, oldstyle figures {proportional}, and care given to character shapes so they will work better without kerning.
For a great deal, see Librum Book Design Group, for a package containing all fifteen fonts!
Librum E Font families
The Librum E includes the following font families:
- Librum E Book
- Librum E Italic
- Librum E Bold
- Librum E Bold Italic
- Librum E Small Caps
Librum E Preview
Here is a preview of how Librum E will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.
