GNU FreeFont

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FreeMono
CategoryMonospace
ClassificationMechanistic
Designer(s)Primož Peterlin, Steve White
FoundryGNU Savannah
Date created19 February 2002
Date released7 April 2005
Characters4,160
Glyphs4,178
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later with Font-exception-2.0
Websitewww.gnu.org/software/freefont/
Latest release version20120503[1] Edit this on Wikidata
Latest release date3 May 2012
FreeSans
CategorySans-serif
ClassificationNeo-grotesque
Designer(s)Primož Peterlin, Steve White
Characters4,622
Glyphs6,272
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later with Font-exception-2.0
FreeSerif
CategorySerif
ClassificationTransitional
Designer(s)Primož Peterlin, Steve White
Characters8,087
Glyphs10,537
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later with Font-exception-2.0

GNU FreeFont (also known as Free UCS Outline Fonts) is a family of free

CJK
Asian character set. The project was initiated in 2002 by Primož Peterlin and is now maintained by Steve White.

The family includes three faces: FreeMono, FreeSans, and FreeSerif, each in four styles (Regular, Italic/Oblique, Bold, and Bold Italic/Oblique).

The fonts are licensed under the GPL-3.0-or-later license with the Font-exception-2.0, ensuring they may be both freely distributed and embedded or otherwise utilized within a document without the document itself being covered by the GPL. The fonts can be obtained libre from GNU Savannah.[2] They are also packaged on certain Linux distributions, including Ubuntu[3] and Arch Linux.[4]

Design

The glyphs of GNU FreeFont come from many sources, all of which are compatible with the GPL.[5]

The core Latin characters are derived from the

Type 1 fonts donated by URW++ to the Ghostscript project.[6] Specifically, the design notes of GNU FreeFont state that:[7]

The Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Hebrew, Arabic, and

Cyrillic range also includes Valek Filipov's Gnome Cyrillic and Tempora LCG Unicode. Valek Filippov further added some composite Latin Extended-A
glyphs.

The Devanagari range in serif is from the Velthuis TeX font,

Ethiopic range is based on the Ethiopic metafont project at the University of Hamburg.[12]

Unicode coverage

Upper case letters of European alphabets in FreeSerif

In the latest release of 2012-05-03, FreeSerif includes 10,537 glyphs, FreeSans includes 6,272 glyphs, and FreeMono includes 4,178 glyphs.

The family covers characters from the following Unicode blocks: [13]

See also

  • Free software Unicode fonts
  • List of typefaces
  • Unicode typefaces

References

  1. ^ "GNU FreeFont 20120503 released". 3 May 2012.
  2. ^ "GNU Project Archives". Ftp.gnu.org. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
  3. ^ "Source Package: fonts-freefont". Retrieved 2022-07-08.
  4. ^ "gnu-free-fonts". Retrieved 2022-07-08.
  5. ^ "Gnu FreeFont: Global fontware". Retrieved 2022-07-08.
  6. ^ "Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview". Cs.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
  7. ^ "Gnu FreeFont: Design notes". Retrieved 2022-07-08.
  8. ^ "GNU FreeFont: Sources by script". Retrieved 2022-07-08.
  9. ^ "Index of /tex-archive/language/devanagari/velthuis/". Dante.ctan.org. Retrieved 2017-01-20.
  10. ^ "Gargi : Free Unicode OpenType Font – Summary [Savannah]". Savannah.nongnu.org. Retrieved 2013-08-25.
  11. ^ [1] Archived August 7, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ "Index of /tex-archive/language/ethiopia/ethiop/". Dante.ctan.org. Retrieved 2017-01-20.
  13. ^ "Gnu FreeFont support for OpenType OS/2 character ranges". Retrieved 2022-08-04.

External links

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