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FreeMono
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CategoryMonospace
ClassificationMechanistic
[[Type design#Profession|DesignerTemplate:Pluralize from text]]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
File:FreeMonoDemonstration.png
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Websitewww.gnu.org/software/freefont/
Latest release versionTemplate:Wikidata
Latest release dateTemplate:Wikidata

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FreeSans
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CategorySans-serif
ClassificationNeo-grotesque
[[Type design#Profession|DesignerTemplate:Pluralize from text]]Primož Peterlin, Steve White
Characters4,622
Glyphs6,272
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later with Font-exception-2.0
File:FreeSansDemonstration.png
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FreeSerif
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CategorySerif
ClassificationTransitional
[[Type design#Profession|DesignerTemplate:Pluralize from text]]Primož Peterlin, Steve White
Characters8,087
Glyphs10,537
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later with Font-exception-2.0
File:FreeSerifDemonstration.png
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GNU FreeFont (also known as Free UCS Outline Fonts) is a family of free OpenType, TrueType and WOFF vector fonts, implementing as much of the Universal Character Set (UCS) as possible, aside from the very large 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.[1] They are also packaged on certain Linux distributions, including Ubuntu[2] and Arch Linux.[3]

Design

The glyphs of GNU FreeFont come from many sources, all of which are compatible with the GPL.[4]

The core Latin characters are derived from the Type 1 fonts donated by URW++ to the Ghostscript project.[5] Specifically, the design notes of GNU FreeFont state that:[6]

The Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Hebrew, Arabic, and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) characters are partially based on Omega, which is an extension of TeX.[7] The Greek characters are also based on a set of Greek Type 1 fonts compiled by Angelo Haritsis, in addition to Alexey Kryukov's Tempora LCG Unicode. The 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,[8] while the range in sans is based on Gargi;[9] Bengali and Gurmukhi ranges are based on Harsh Kumar's BharatBhasha project[10] and others. The Gujarati and Oriya ranges are based on Samyak fonts. The Ethiopic range is based on the Ethiopic metafont project at the University of Hamburg.[11]

Unicode coverage

File:Venn diagram showing Greek, Latin and Cyrillic letters.svg
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: [12]

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See also

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."GNU Project Archives". Ftp.gnu.org. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Source Package: fonts-freefont". Retrieved 2022-07-08.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."gnu-free-fonts". Retrieved 2022-07-08.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Gnu FreeFont: Global fontware". Retrieved 2022-07-08.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview". Cs.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Gnu FreeFont: Design notes". Retrieved 2022-07-08.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."GNU FreeFont: Sources by script". Retrieved 2022-07-08.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Index of /tex-archive/language/devanagari/velthuis/". Dante.ctan.org. Retrieved 2017-01-20.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Gargi : Free Unicode OpenType Font – Summary [Savannah]". Savannah.nongnu.org. Retrieved 2013-08-25.
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  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Index of /tex-archive/language/ethiopia/ethiop/". Dante.ctan.org. Retrieved 2017-01-20.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Gnu FreeFont support for OpenType OS/2 character ranges". Retrieved 2022-08-04.

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.fonts, creative. "CreativeFonts". CreativeFonts.
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