Freefont
Freefont
http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/
The GNU FreeFont project aims to provide a useful set of free scalable (i.e., OpenType) fonts covering as much as possible of the ISO 10646/Unicode UCS (Universal Character Set). It includes:
- Latin, Cyrillic, and Arabic, with supplements for many languages
- Greek, Hebrew, Armenian, Georgian, Thaana, Syriac
- Devanagari, Bengali, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Oriya, Sinhala, Tamil, Malayalam
- Thai, Tai Le, Kayah Li, Hanunóo, Buginese
- Cherokee, Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
- Ethiopian, Tifnagh, Vai, Osmanya, Coptic
- Glagolitic, Gothic, Runic, Ugaritic, Old Persian, Phoenician, Old Italic
- Braille, International Phonetic Alphabet (and extensions)
- currency symbols, general punctuation and diacritical marks, dingbats
- mathematical symbols (including much of the TeX repertoire of symbols)
- technical symbols: APL, OCR, arrows,
- geometrical shapes, box drawing
- musical symbols, gaming symbols (chess, checkers, mahjong), miscellaneous symbols
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This is a GNU package:freefont
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version 20120503
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released on 3 May 2012
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Licensing
| License | Verified by | Verified on | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPL | Kelly Hopkins | 23 September 2010 | |
| GPLv2orlater | Kelly Hopkins | 23 September 2010 | |
| GPLv3orlater | Kelly Hopkins | 23 September 2010 | with special font exception
http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/license.html |
Leaders and contributors
| Contact(s) | Role |
|---|---|
 Steve White | Maintainer |
Resources and communication
| Audience | Resource type | URI |
|---|---|---|
| Users needing help | Support | |
| Interested in recent developments | General | |
| Developers | VCS Repository Webview | |
| Problem reporters | Bug Tracking | |
| General discussion group | Mailing List Info/Archive | |
| Users | Download | http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/ |
Software prerequisites
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Required to build | FontForge (for compiling SFD to TrueType/OpenType/etc format) |
| Weak prerequisite | Python (used by automated build scripts, tests, etc) |
| Weak prerequisite | make (convenient automated build from Makefile) |
This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 3 May 2012.
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