Freefont
Freefont
https://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/
UCS outline fonts.
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
This is a GNU package:freefont
Download
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/freefont-ttf-20120503.zip
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Leaders and contributors
| Contact(s) | Role |
|---|---|
| Steve White | Maintainer |
Resources and communication
| Audience | Resource type | URI |
|---|---|---|
| Debian (Ref) (R) | https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ttf-freefont | |
| Mailing List | https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freefont-bugs/ | |
| Debian (Ref) (R) | https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fonts-freefont | |
| VCS Repository Webview | https://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/freefont | |
| Debian (Ref) | https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/freefont | |
| Download | https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/ | |
| Mailing List | https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss/ | |
| General | https://savannah.gnu.org/people/ | |
| Mailing List | https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freefont-announce/ | |
| Savannah (Ref) | https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/ |
Software prerequisites
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Weak prerequisite | Python (used by automated build scripts, tests, etc) |
| Required to build | FontForge (for compiling SFD to TrueType/OpenType/etc format) |
| Weak prerequisite | make (convenient automated build from Makefile) |
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