This is the README for the crimson package, version 2017-03-16. This package provides LaTeX, pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX support for the Crimson Text family of fonts, designed by Sebastian Kosch. The Crimson Text family is for book production in the tradition of beautiful oldstyle typefaces, inspired particularly by the fantastic work of people like Jan Tschichold (Sabon), Robert Slimbach (Arno, Minion) and Jonathan Hoefler (Hoefler Text). Support for small caps and old-style numerals is still "under construction"; this version of the package does not support these features. To install this package on a TDS-compliant TeX system download the file "tex-archive"/install/fonts/crimson.tds.zip where the preferred URL for "tex-archive" is http://mirrors.ctan.org. Unzip the archive at the root of an appropriate texmf tree, likely a personal or local tree. If necessary, update the file-name database (e.g., texhash). Update the font-map files by enabling the Map file crimson.map. To use, add \usepackage{crimson} to the preamble of your document. This will activate Crimson Text as the main (serifed) text font. LuaLaTeX and xeLaTeX users who might prefer type1 fonts or who wish to avoid fontspec may use the type1 option. Options scaled= or scale= may be used to scale the fonts. Option semibold (or sb) will activate the semi-bold variant as the default bold face. Localized use of semi-bold is available using the \crimsonsemibold command Font encodings supported are OT1, T1, LY1 and TS1. The OpenType fonts were obtained from https://github.com/skosch/Crimson in the Desktop Fonts folder and are licensed under the SIL Open Font License, version 1.1; the text may be found in the doc directory. The type1 versions were created by otftotfm. The support files were created using autoinst and are licensed under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License. The maintainer of this package is Bob Tennent (rdt at cs.queensu.ca)