Liberation is the common name for the three TrueType font families: Liberation Sans , Liberation Serif, and Liberation Mono . They are metrically compatible with Monotype Arial , Times New Roman, and Courier New fonts, respectively.
| Liberation sans | |
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| Style | |
| Classification | Sans serif |
| date of creation | May 9, 2007 |
| Designer | Steve Matheson |
| Using | Free Arial headset replacement when metrics need matching |
| License | GNU GPL v2 with some limitations |
| Character set | Unicode |
| Latest version | 2.00.5 |
| Site | |
| Liberation serif | |
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| Style | |
| Classification | serif |
| date of creation | |
| Using | Free replacement of the Times New Roman headset when matching metrics is needed |
| License | |
| Latest version | 2.00.4 |
| Site | |
| Liberation mono | |
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| Style | |
| Classification | monospaced, sans-serif |
| date of creation | |
| Using | Courier New free headset replacement when matching metrics is needed |
| License | |
| Latest version | 2.00.4 |
| Site | |
Available under the GNU General Public License with an exception for embedding fonts: copyleft font licenses do not apply to documents, that is, documents containing these fonts do not become licensed from this license from this.
Content
History
Fonts developed by Steve Matteson of Ascender Corp. like Ascender Sans and Ascender Serif [1] . A variant of these fonts in addition to the monospace font and under an open license is licensed by Red Hat , Inc. like Liberation fonts [2] .
Feature
Liberation Sans and Liberation Serif are close in character size to the Monotype , Arial, and Times New Roman fonts, respectively.
Liberation Mono is stylistically closer to Liberation Sans than to Courier New , although it is metrically compatible with it.
Liberation fonts are marketed as a free, free replacement for the above commercial fonts.
- Comparison of the first version of Liberation fonts with fonts with which they should be metrically compatible
Comparison of Liberation Sans and Arial
Comparison of Liberation Serif and Times New Roman
Comparison of Liberation Mono and Courier New
All three fonts support code pages 437, 737, 775, 850, 852, 855, 857, 860, 861, 863, 865, 866, 869, 1250, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1257, Macintosh Character Set (US Roman ) and Windows OEM character set,
Statistics
Liberation Mono
| Version | 1.00 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tracing | greasy | bold italics | italics | direct |
| Blocks | ||||
| Alphabetic Presentation Forms | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Arrows | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| Basic latin | 95 | 95 | 95 | 95 |
| Block elements | eight | eight | eight | eight |
| Box drawing | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| Currency Symbols | four | four | four | four |
| Cyrillic | 94 | 94 | 94 | 94 |
| General punctuation | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 |
| Geometric shapes | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| Greek and Coptic | 73 | 73 | 73 | 73 |
| Latin Extended Additional | eight | eight | eight | eight |
| Latin Extended-A | 128 | 128 | 128 | 128 |
| Latin Extended-B | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| Latin-1 Supplement | 96 | 96 | 96 | 96 |
| Letterlike Symbols | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| Mathematical operators | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 |
| Miscellaneous Symbols | eleven | eleven | eleven | eleven |
| Miscellaneous technical | four | four | four | four |
| Number forms | four | four | four | four |
| Private use area | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Spacing Modifier Letters | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| Superscripts and Subscripts | one | one | one | one |
| Totals | ||||
| Blocks | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 |
| Characters | 654 | 654 | 654 | 654 |
| Glyphs | 663 | 663 | 663 | 663 |
| Kerning pairs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hinting (points) | ||||
| Smoothed | 0-6 | 0-6 | 0-6 | 0-6 |
| Hinted | 7-11 | 7-12 | 7-27 | 7-27 |
| Hinted and smoothed | 12+ | 13+ | 28+ | 28+ |
Liberation Sans
| Version | 1.00 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tracing | greasy | bold italics | italics | direct |
| Blocks | ||||
| Alphabetic Presentation Forms | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Arrows | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| Basic latin | 95 | 95 | 95 | 95 |
| Block elements | eight | eight | eight | eight |
| Box drawing | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| Currency Symbols | four | four | four | four |
| Cyrillic | 94 | 94 | 94 | 94 |
| General punctuation | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 |
| Geometric shapes | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| Greek and Coptic | 73 | 73 | 73 | 73 |
| Latin Extended Additional | eight | eight | eight | eight |
| Latin Extended-A | 128 | 128 | 128 | 128 |
| Latin Extended-B | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| Latin-1 Supplement | 96 | 96 | 96 | 96 |
| Letterlike Symbols | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| Mathematical operators | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 |
| Miscellaneous Symbols | eleven | eleven | eleven | eleven |
| Miscellaneous technical | four | four | four | four |
| Number forms | four | four | four | four |
| Private use area | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Spacing Modifier Letters | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| Superscripts and Subscripts | one | one | one | one |
| Totals | ||||
| Blocks | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 |
| Characters | 655 | 655 | 655 | 655 |
| Glyphs | 668 | 668 | 668 | 663 |
| Kerning pairs | 908 | 820 | 857 | 908 |
| Hinting (points) | ||||
| Smoothed | 0-6 | 0-6 | 0-6 | 0-6 |
| Hinted | 7-8 | 7-8 | 7-13 | 7-13 |
| Hinted and smoothed | 9+ | 9+ | 14+ | 14+ |
Liberation Serif
| Version | 1.00 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tracing | greasy | bold italics | italics | direct |
| Blocks | ||||
| Alphabetic Presentation Forms | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Arrows | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| Basic latin | 95 | 95 | 95 | 95 |
| Block elements | eight | eight | eight | eight |
| Box drawing | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| Currency Symbols | four | four | four | four |
| Cyrillic | 94 | 94 | 94 | 94 |
| General punctuation | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 |
| Geometric shapes | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| Greek and Coptic | 73 | 73 | 73 | 73 |
| Latin Extended Additional | eight | eight | eight | eight |
| Latin Extended-A | 128 | 128 | 128 | 128 |
| Latin Extended-B | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| Latin-1 Supplement | 96 | 96 | 96 | 96 |
| Letterlike Symbols | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| Mathematical operators | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 |
| Miscellaneous Symbols | eleven | eleven | eleven | eleven |
| Miscellaneous technical | four | four | four | four |
| Number forms | four | four | four | four |
| Private use area | 3 | 3 | four | four |
| Spacing Modifier Letters | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| Superscripts and Subscripts | one | one | one | one |
| Totals | ||||
| Blocks | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 |
| Characters | 655 | 655 | 656 | 656 |
| Glyphs | 660 | 660 | 661 | 661 |
| Kerning pairs | 865 | 845 | 821 | 867 |
| Hinting (points) | ||||
| Smoothed | 0-6 | 0-6 | 0-6 | 0-6 |
| Hinted | 7-10 | 7-13 | 7-15 | 7-13 |
| Hinted and smoothed | 11+ | 14+ | 16+ | 14+ |
Unrealized functionality
Unlike modern versions of Times New Roman, Arial and Courier New, Liberation fonts do not support such advanced OpenType tools as ligatures , minuscule digits or mathematical fractions .
See also
- Croscore and Crosextra - font sets metrically compatible with Google Arial, Times New Roman, Courier New, Calibri and Cambria
- Droid fonts of the same designer
- Free universal fonts
- Liberastics - modified Liberation Sans fonts with improved Cyrillic
Notes
- β Ascender Sans notation at Fontmarketplace.com
- β Webbink, Mark Liberation Fonts . Red Hat (May 9, 2007). Archived January 17, 2008.
Links
- Red Hat Press Release
- Page on github.com
- Download TTF files from the release page