Free UCS Outline Fonts - Summary
This project is part of the GNU Project.
We aim to provide a useful set of free outline (i.e. OpenType) fonts covering as much as possible of the ISO 10646/Unicode UCS (Universal Character Set). The set consists of three typefaces: one monospaced and two proportional (one with uniform and one wi
Registration Date: Tue 19 Feb 2002 09:25:24 AM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
Development Status: 4 - Beta
posted by Stevan_White, Sun 24 Aug 2008 06:34:08 PM UTC - 0 replies
Check them out!
http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/
This is in anticipation of a new release of the font itself.
Particularly, note the "coverage" page, which contains a table of character ranges vs. their coverage by the different faces of FreeFont. The table was generated by a FontForge script, now in CVS.
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posted by Stevan_White, Sun 23 Mar 2008 03:50:25 PM UTC - 0 replies
I'm pleased to announce another release of GNU FreeFont.
This release addresses mostly technical issues with the fonts. Several outstanding bug reports are fixed, and some characters are added, especially Math symbols.
Download it at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont
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posted by Stevan_White, Mon 11 Feb 2008 07:49:28 PM UTC - 0 replies
The svn/ directory of Freefont has been brought up to date with the sources in the Debian ttf-freefont package, which has been updated independently of Freefont for several years now.
I have set a CVS symbolic tag in the .svn files, named
DEBIAN_MERGE_2008
to mark the revisions that comprise this update.
With this merge, it should be possible for Freefont development to continue unhindered.
posted by peterlin, Tue 06 Dec 2005 12:30:55 PM UTC - 0 replies
After a considerable amount of time, a new release of free UCS outline fonts is available on Savannah download area.
All the fonts now conform to MES-1 (Minimum European Subset) of Unicode/ISO 10646. In addition, thanks to Solaiman Karim, Omi ...
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