Liberation fonts
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| Category | Sans-serif |
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| Classification | Neo-grotesque |
| Foundry | Ascender Corp. |
| License |
SIL Open Font License (version 2 onwards) GPL v2 with some exceptions (older versions) |
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| Category | Serif |
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| Classification | Transitional |
| Foundry | Ascender Corp. |
| License |
SIL Open Font License (version 2 onwards) GPL v2 with some exceptions (older versions) |
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| Category | Monospace |
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| Foundry | Ascender Corp. |
| License |
SIL Open Font License (version 2 onwards) GPL v2 with some exceptions (older versions) |
SIL Open Font License (version 2 onwards)
SIL Open Font License (version 2 onwards)
SIL Open Font License (version 2 onwards)
Liberation is the collective name of four TrueType font families: Liberation Sans, Liberation Sans Narrow, Liberation Serif and Liberation Mono. These fonts are metrically compatible with the most commonly used fonts on Microsoft Windows operating system and Office suite (Monotype Corporation's Arial, Arial Narrow, Times New Roman and Courier New, respectively), for which Liberation is intended as free substitute.
Liberation Sans, Liberation Sans Narrow and Liberation Serif closely match the metrics of Monotype Corporation fonts Arial, Arial Narrow and Times New Roman, respectively.
Liberation Mono is styled closer to Liberation Sans than Monotype's Courier New, though its metrics match with Courier New.
The Liberation fonts are intended as free, open-source replacements of the aforementioned proprietary fonts.
Comparison of Liberation Sans with Arial
Comparison of Liberation Serif with Times New Roman
Comparison of Liberation Mono with Courier New
All three fonts supported IBM/Microsoft code pages 437, 737, 775, 850, 852, 855, 857, 858, 860, 861, 863, 865, 866, 869, 1250, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1257, the Macintosh Character Set (US Roman), and the Windows OEM character set, that is only the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets, leaving out many writing systems. Extension to other writing systems was prevented by its unique licensing terms. Since the old fonts were replaced by the Croscore equivalents, expanded Unicode coverage has become possible.
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