Free UCS Outline Fonts
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Free UCS Outline Fonts is a project that produces a family of free computer fonts collectively known as GNU FreeFont, which are high-quality outline (OpenType
, Truetype
, PostScript
(Type 0)) fonts, containing as much of the Universal Character Set (UCS)
as possible. The project was initiated in 2002 by Primož Peterlin and is now maintained by Steve White.
The fonts are licensed under the GNU GPLv3 with a font exception, which ensures that they are freely distributed, and so that copies of the fonts may be embedded in a document that uses the font without the document itself being covered by the GPL.
The family includes three faces called FreeMono, FreeSans, and FreeSerif, each in four styles. These fonts can be obtained for free from GNU Savannah
.
At the core of the collection are 35 Type 1 fonts donated by
URW++ Design & Development GmbH
Ghostscript project 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 and others. The Ethiopic range is based on the Ethiopic metafont project at the University of Hamburg.
In the latest release of 2010-09-19,
FreeSerif face includes 8,995 Unicode glyphs, with regular, italic, bold and bold italic styles.
FreeSans face includes 4,374 Unicode glyphs, with regular, oblique, bold and bold oblique styles.
FreeMono face includes 3,554 Unicode glyphs, with regular, oblique, bold and bold oblique styles.
The family covers characters from the following Unicode block
s:
OpenType
OpenType is a format for scalable computer fonts. It was built on its predecessor TrueType, retaining TrueType's basic structure and adding many intricate data structures for prescribing typographic behavior...
, Truetype
TrueType
TrueType is an outline font standard originally developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript...
, PostScript
PostScript
PostScript is a dynamically typed concatenative programming language created by John Warnock and Charles Geschke in 1982. It is best known for its use as a page description language in the electronic and desktop publishing areas. Adobe PostScript 3 is also the worldwide printing and imaging...
(Type 0)) fonts, containing as much of the Universal Character Set (UCS)
Universal Character Set
The Universal Character Set , defined by the International Standard ISO/IEC 10646, Information technology — Universal multiple-octet coded character set , is a standard set of characters upon which many character encodings are based...
as possible. The project was initiated in 2002 by Primož Peterlin and is now maintained by Steve White.
The fonts are licensed under the GNU GPLv3 with a font exception, which ensures that they are freely distributed, and so that copies of the fonts may be embedded in a document that uses the font without the document itself being covered by the GPL.
The family includes three faces called FreeMono, FreeSans, and FreeSerif, each in four styles. These fonts can be obtained for free from GNU Savannah
GNU Savannah
GNU Savannah is a project of the Free Software Foundation initiated by Loïc Dachary, which serves as a collaborative software development management system for Free Software projects. Savannah currently offers CVS, GNU arch, Subversion, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, mailing list, web hosting, file...
.
At the core of the collection are 35 Type 1 fonts donated by
URW++ Design & Development GmbH
Ghostscript project 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 and others. The Ethiopic range is based on the Ethiopic metafont project at the University of Hamburg.
In the latest release of 2010-09-19,
FreeSerif face includes 8,995 Unicode glyphs, with regular, italic, bold and bold italic styles.
FreeSans face includes 4,374 Unicode glyphs, with regular, oblique, bold and bold oblique styles.
FreeMono face includes 3,554 Unicode glyphs, with regular, oblique, bold and bold oblique styles.
The family covers characters from the following Unicode block
Unicode block
In Unicode, a block is defined as one contiguous range of code points. Blocks are named uniquely and have no overlap. They may be defined with the starting and ending code points. The block explicitly can include code points that are unassigned and non-characters. Code points not belonging to any...
s:
- Basic Latin
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Latin Extended-A
- Latin Extended-B
- IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) Extensions
- Spacing Modifier Letters
- Combining Diacritical Marks
- Greek
- Cyrillic
- Cyrillic Supplement
- Arabic
- Hebrew
- N'Ko
- Thaana
- Syriac
- Armenian
- Georgian
- Devanagari
- Bengali
- Gujarati
- Gurmukhi
- Sinhala
- Tamil
- Malayalam
- Tai Le
- Ethiopic
- Thai
- Kayah Li
- Cherokee
- Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
- Hanunóo
- Buginese
- Vai
- Phonetic Extensions
- Phonetic Extensions Supplement
- Diacritical marks
- Cyrillic Extended-B
- Tifinagh
- Osmanya
- Coptic
- Glagolitic
- Gothic
- Ugaritic
- Old Persian
- Phoenician
- Runic
- Braille
- Supplemental Arrows-A
- Latin Extended Additional
- Greek Extended
- General Punctuation
- Super and Sub scripts
- Currency Symbols
- Letterlike Symbols
- Number Forms
- Arrows
- Mathematical Operators
- Miscellaneous Technical Symbols
- Enclosed Alphanumerics
- Box Drawing
- Block Elements
- Geometric Shapes
- Miscellaneous Symbols
- Dingbats
- Alphabetic Presentation Forms
- Vietnamese
- Western music
- Byzantine music
- Mah Jong tiles
- Dominoes
See also
- Free software Unicode fonts
- List of typefaces
- Unicode typefacesUnicode typefacesA Unicode font is a computer font that contains a wide range of characters, letters, digits, glyphs, symbols, ideograms, logograms, etc., which are collectively mapped into the standard Universal Character Set, derived from many different languages and scripts from around the world...