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Freefont - Free UCS outline fonts

This project aims to provide a set of free outline (PostScript Type0, TrueType, OpenType...) fonts covering the ISO 10646/Unicode UCS (Universal Character Set). It will gather together in one collection the various free fonts that already exist. Ideally, they will cover the following charactersets: 
 * ISO 8859 parts 1-15
 * CEN MES-3 European Unicode Subset
 * IBM/Microsoft code pages 437, 850, 852, 1250, 1252 and more
 * Microsoft/Adobe Windows Glyph List 4 (WGL4)
 * KOI8-R and KOI8-U
 * DEC VT100 graphics symbols
 * International Phonetic Alphabet
 * Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopian, Thai and Lao
 alphabets, including Arabic presentation forms A/B Japanese
 * Katakana and Hiragana
 * mathematical symbols, including the whole TeX repertoire of symbols
 * APL symbols etc.


Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.nongnu.org/freefont/
Source tarballhttp://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freefont/
Source informationhttp://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freefont/
    
Licensed under GPL.
    
This is not a GNU package.

Support contacts

Announce List<freefont-announce@nongnu.org> http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freefont-announce
Bug List<freefont-bugs@nongnu.org> http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freefont-bugs

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Source repository:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/freefont http://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group=freefont
Interfacescommand line
Source languagesSpline Font Database (SFD) format
Build prerequisitesPfaEdit (for converting SFD sources to TrueType or other compiled font formats. Fonts in TrueType/OpenType format are also available for those who prefer them).
Related programspfaedit

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-06-18
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>
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