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Nimbus Sans L is a version of Nimbus Sans using Adobe font sources. It was designed in 1987. The family includes 17 fonts in 5 weights and 2 widths, with Nimbus Sans L Extra Black only available in condensed roman format. A subset of Nimbus Sans L, which includes regular and bold weight fonts in all widths and styles, were released under the ...
It features Normal, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic weights, and is one of several freely licensed fonts offered by URW++. Although not exactly the same, Nimbus Mono has metrics and glyphs that are very similar to Courier and Courier New. It is one of the Ghostscript fonts, free alternatives to 35 basic PostScript fonts (which include Courier ...
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.
Nimbus Roman No. 9 L is a serif typeface created by URW Studio in 1987, and eventually released under the GPL and AFPL (as Type 1 font for Ghostscript) in 1996 and LPPL in 2009. [7] [8] [9] It features Normal, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic weights, and is one of several freely licensed fonts offered by URW++ .
Liberation fonts. Liberation Serif is metrically identical to Times New Roman. However, designer Steve Matteson changed the letterforms considerably, making it less rounded and more squared. Liberation is the collective name of four TrueType font families: Liberation Sans, Liberation Sans Narrow, Liberation Serif, and Liberation Mono.
URW continuously expanded its digital font library, and also became known for making some of its fonts available to the open source community as free fonts. Examples include Ghostscript fonts, the most commonly known of which are Nimbus Mono L , Nimbus Roman No9 L , and Nimbus Sans L .
TeX Gyre Heros [157] – a derivative of Nimbus Sans L with enhanced letter forms and metrics – has been prepared for use in the TeX scientific document preparation software, and since 2009 general under the GUST font license. [158] [159] FreeSans is a free font descending from URW++ Nimbus Sans L, which in turn descends from Helvetica. [160]
Open-source Unicode typefaces. Examples of several libre, sans-serif typefaces. There are Unicode typefaces which are open-source and designed to contain glyphs of all Unicode characters, or at least a broad selection of Unicode scripts. There are also numerous projects aimed at providing only a certain script, such as the Arabeyes Arabic font.