GNU FreeFont, also known as Free UCS Outline Fonts, 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 GPLv3 with a font exception. These fonts can be obtained for free from GNU Savannah.1 The project was initiated in 2002 by Primož Peterlin and is now maintained by Steve White. The fonts can be edited with FontCreator.
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 GmbH2 Ghostscript project3 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 project4 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, but no hinting, with regular, italic, bold and bold italic typestyles)
FreeSans (includes 2,734 glyphs in v1.76, but no hinting, with regular, italic, bold and bold italic typestyles).
See also Free software Unicode fonts List of typefaces Unicode typefaces References ^ Download FreeFont fonts ^ (URW)++ Homepage ^ Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview ^ BharatBhasha ^ ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/ethiopia/ethiop/ External links GNU FreeFont (Free UCS Outline Fonts)
