Free UCS Outline Fonts

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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] The project is maintained by Primož Peterlin.

Even though this project is independent of the Free Software Foundation, the font collection is very often erroneously referred to as "The Free Software Foundation Fonts".

At the core of the collection 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]

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).

  1. ^ http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freefont/
  2. ^ http://www.urwpp.de/
  3. ^ http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
  4. ^ http://www.bharatbhasha.org.in/bharatbhasha.htm
  5. ^ ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/ethiopia/ethiop/

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