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Free UCS Outline Fonts (also known as, freefont) is a project for developing fonts by collecting characters from other free fonts and joining them in one package. It aims to provide a set of free high-quality outline (OpenType, Truetype, PostScript (Type 0)) UCS fonts, released under GNU GPL license. These fonts can be obtained for free from GNU Savannah [1]. Project maintainer is Primož Peterlin. It has been suggested that OpenType features supported by Mac OS X be merged into this article or section. ...
TrueType is an outline font standard originally developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobes Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. ...
A postscript (from post scriptum, a Latin expression meaning after writing and abbreviated P.S.) is a sentence, paragraph, or occasionally many paragraphs added, often hastily and incidentally, after the signature of a letter or (sometimes) the main body of an essay or book. ...
GNU (pronounced ) is a free software operating system consisting of a kernel, libraries, system tools, compilers and many end-user applications. ...
The GNU logo For other uses of GPL, see GPL (disambiguation). ...
GNU Savannah is a project of the Free Software Foundation, which serves as a collaborative software development management system for Free Software projects. ...
Even though this project is independent of the Free Software Foundation but their font collection is very often erroneously referred to as "The Free Software Foundation Fonts". The Free Software Foundation logo The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit organization founded in October 1985 by Richard Stallman to support the free software movement (free as in freedom), and in particular the GNU project. ...
At the core of the font are 35 Type 1 fonts donated by URW++ Design & Development GmbH [2] Ghostscript project [3] to be available under the GPL. Valek Filippov added Cyrillic and composite Latin Extended A glyphs. Angelo Haritsis compiled a set of Greek Type 1 fonts, used in FreeSans and FreeMono. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gujarati and Gurmukhi ranges are based on Harsh Kumar's BharatBhasha project [4] and others. The Ethiopic range is based on the Ethiopic metafont project at the University of Hamburg [5]. PostScript (PS) is a page description language used primarily in the electronic and desktop publishing areas. ...
The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ...
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FreeSerif freefont includes 3,914 glyphs in v1.52. It covers characters from the following Unicode blocks: Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, IPA, Spacing Modifier Letters, Combining Diacritical Marks, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Thaana, Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Thai, Ethiopic, Latin Extended Additional, Greek Extended, General Punctuation, Currency Symbols, Letterlike Symbols, Number Forms, Arrows, Mathematical Operators, Miscellaneous Technical, Enclosed Alphanumerics, Box Drawing, Block Elements, Geometric Shapes, Miscellaneous Symbols, Dingbats, CJK Symbols and Punctuation, Hiragana, Katakana, Alphabetic Presentation Forms, Vietnamese (Anaam).
FreeMono (includes 2,577 glyphs in v1.23), FreeSans (includes 2,734 glyphs in v1.76).
See also A few projects exist to provide free software Unicode fonts, i. ...
This is a list of typefaces. ...
Unicode typefaces (also known as UCS fonts and Unicode fonts) contains wide range of characters, letters, digits, glyphs, symbols, ideograms, logograms, etc, which are collectively mapped into Universal Character Set, also known as, UCS (which is an international standard ISO/IEC 10646), derived from many different languages, scripts from all...
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