Liberation fonts
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Designer(s) | Steve Matteson | |
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Foundry | Ascender Corporation | |
License | SIL Open Font License (version 2 onwards)[1] Metrically compatible with |
Category | Serif | |
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Classification | Transitional | |
Foundry | Ascender Corporation | |
License | SIL Open Font License (version 2 onwards)[1] Metrically compatible with |
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Liberation is the collective name of four
Characteristics
Liberation Sans, Sans Narrow, Serif and Mono closely match the
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Comparison of Liberation Sans with Arial
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Comparison of Liberation Serif with Times New Roman
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Comparison of Liberation Mono withCourier New
Unicode coverage
All three fonts supported IBM/Microsoft
History
The fonts were developed by Steve Matteson of Ascender Corporation as Ascender Sans and Ascender Serif. A variant of this font family, with the addition of a monospaced font and open-source license, was licensed by Red Hat Inc. as the Liberation font family.[4] Liberation Sans and Liberation Serif derive from Ascender Sans and Ascender Serif respectively; Liberation Mono uses base designs from Ascender Sans and Ascender Uni Duo.
The fonts were developed in two stages. The first release of May 2007 was a set of fully usable fonts, but they lacked the full hinting capability. The second release, made available in the beginning of 2008, provides full hinting of the fonts.
In April 2010, Oracle Corporation contributed the Liberation Sans Narrow typefaces to the project.[5] They are metrically compatible with the popular Arial Narrow font family.[6] With Liberation Fonts 1.06 the new typefaces were officially released.[7]
Distribution
Version 2.00.0 or above
As of December 2018, Liberation Fonts 2.00.0 and above are a fork of the ChromeOS Fonts released under the SIL Open Font License, and all fonts are developed at GitHub.[8]
Older versions
The
Some other Linux distributions (such as
Due to licensing concerns with fonts released under a GPL license, some projects looked for alternatives to the Liberation fonts.
Unsupported features
Unlike modern versions of Times New Roman, Arial, and Courier New, Liberation fonts do not support
See also
Typefaces
- Croscore fonts – fonts which formed the basis for Liberation fonts
- Droid– a font family by the same font designer
- Gentium – an Open Font License font which defines roughly 1,500 glyphs covering almost all the range of Latin characters used worldwide
- Linux Libertine – another free software serif typeface with OpenType features support
- Nimbus Sans L and Nimbus Mono L– another series of free software fonts also designed to be substituted for Times New Roman, Arial and Courier.
- GNU FreeFont, derived from Nimbus, but with a better Unicode support.
Other
Notes
- ^ Liberation Mono is styled closer to Liberation Sans than to Courier New
References
- ^ a b Licence, Liberation Fonts Github page
- ^ a b c Liberation Fonts, Fedora, archived from the original on 2021-10-29, retrieved 2022-01-04.
- ^ a b Willis, Nathan (2012-06-19). "Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization". LWN. Retrieved 2012-07-16.
- ^ Webbink, Mark (2007-05-09). "Liberation Fonts". Red Hat.
- ^ "Liberation-fonts changelog". Retrieved 2010-11-11.
- ^ "OpenOffice.org 3.3 New Features". Retrieved 2010-11-11.
- ^ Pravin, S (Jul 2010), Liberation Sans release 1.06 (Blogger) (blog).
- ^ "liberationfonts". GitHub. Retrieved 2020-12-24.
- ^ License.txt - LICENSE AGREEMENT AND LIMITED PRODUCT WARRANTY, LIBERATION FONT SOFTWARE, retrieved 2010-01-15
- ^ Bugzilla entries for the revised Liberation fonts included in Fedora 9, Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug List
- ^ Bugzilla screenshot of the revised Liberation Mono font with dotted zero, Red Hat Bugzilla - Bug #252149 (Image)
- ^ "opensuse-oss-i586/liberation2-fonts-2.00.1-2.1.1.noarch.rpm". Archived from the original on 2014-01-15.
/liberation2-fonts-2.00.1-2.1.1.noarch.rpm
- ^ Mandriva Linux 2008 Release Tour, archived from the original on 2010-06-19, retrieved 2010-04-04,
integrated into Mandriva Linux 2008
- ^ "Packages included in Mandriva Linux 2010 Free x86-64 linked from", wiki.mandriva.com/en/Mandriva_Linux_2010#Package_Lists, archived from the original on 2010-01-25, retrieved 2010-04-04,
FREE-2010-x86_64 /main/fonts-ttf-liberation-1.04-2mdv2010.0.noarch
- ^ "OpenOffice.org Wiki - External/Modules". Retrieved 2010-01-31.
- ^ "OpenOffice.org - Issue 77705 - Liberation font and OOo". Retrieved 2010-02-05.
- ^ "OpenOffice.org - Issue 104723 - Update Liberation fonts to v1.05.1.20090721". Retrieved 2010-02-05.
- ^ "OpenOffice.org - Issue 111719 - Update Liberation fonts to v1.06". Retrieved 2010-10-28.
- ^ ooo-build - patches - dev300 (OpenOffice.org 3.xx patches), archived from the original on 2009-09-13, retrieved 2010-01-31
- ^ "Liberation vs Croscore fonts".
External links
- Official website at github.com
- Liberation font files at the releases page
- Liberation Sans Narrow files at the releases page
- Liberation Sans font (Red Hat-related), Fontsy, archived from the original on 2011-06-18, retrieved 2011-02-11.