
2003.09.19
Transfer of Gentium to SIL International (http://www.sil.org) becomes public:
Gentium has now been embraced by SIL International. SIL plans to continue
its development under the guidance of its designer, Victor Gaultney, and
with the help of Annie Olsen and other members of the SIL NRSI team. It will
remain freely available. Expansion of the glyph set to include more extended
Latin glyphs, archaic Greek symbols, and full Cyrillic script support is the
next step. Work on this has already begun, but the results will not be
available for a few months. Addition of bold and bold italic faces will
follow. 

Maintenance release (1.01) of Gentium posted:
Version 1.01 of Gentium (now Gentium SIL) has been posted to the new Gentium
site. This is a maintenance release focused on changing the font name and
other font information to reflect the changeover to an SIL project. There is
only one bug fix - the Greek mu PS name was changed to try and fix a
display/printing problem. 

New Gentium SIL site debuts:
As part of Gentium's transition from an academic research effort to an SIL
project, the Gentium web site has been moved into SIL's Computers and
Writing Systems site: http://scripts.sil.org/gentium 
The content and structure of the new site is similar to the original,
although the design is different. New information has also been added.

2003.07.18
Design characteristics of Gentium highlighted at TypeCon 2003.
http://www.typecon2003.com/

2003.03.07
Gentium is a winner of the TDC2003 Type Design Competition.
http://www.tdc.org/news/2003Results/Gentium.html

2003.01.17
Gentium was exhibited as part of the bukva:raz! exhibit at the UN
Headquarters Main Lobby, 17 Jan - 13 Feb, 2002.

2002.10.22
Some of the research behind Gentium, including a dissertation on diacritic
design, is available on Victor Gaultney's academic site.
http://www.sil.org/~gaultney/research.html

2002.09.22
The "Multitudinous Alphabets" essay, discussing the design of extended Latin
typefaces (like Gentium), was presented at the ATypI-Roma conference.

2002.09.16
First public release of Gentium posted.

2001.12.05
Gentium is one of the winners of the bukva:raz! international type design
competition.

2000.12.24
Design drawings begun.
