FreeSerif Category Serif Designer(s) Primož Peterlin, Steve White License GNU GPLv3 FreeMono Category Serif, Monospace Designer(s) Primož Peterlin, Steve White License GNU GPLv3 FreeSans Category Sans-serif Designer(s) Primož Peterlin, Steve White License GNU GPLv3 Free UCS Outline Fonts is a project that produces a family of free computer fonts collectively known as GNU FreeFont, which are high-quality outline (OpenType, Truetype, PostScript (Type 0)) fonts, containing as much of the Universal Character Set (UCS) as possible. The project was initiated in 2002 by Primož Peterlin and is now maintained by Steve White.

The fonts are licensed under the GNU GPLv3 with a font exception, which ensures that they are freely distributed, and so that copies of the fonts may be embedded in a document that uses the font without the document itself being covered by the GPL. The family includes three faces called FreeMono, FreeSans, and FreeSerif, each in four styles. These fonts can be obtained for free from GNU Savannah.1 At the core of the collection are 35 Type 1 fonts donated by URW++ Design & Development GmbH2 Ghostscript project3 to be available under the GPL. Valek Filippov added Cyrillic and composite Latin Extended-A glyphs. Angelo Haritsis compiled a set of Greek Type 1 fonts, used in FreeSans and FreeMono. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gujarati and Gurmukhi ranges are based on Harsh Kumar's BharatBhasha project4 and others. The Ethiopic range is based on the Ethiopic metafont project at the University of Hamburg.5

In the latest release of 2010-09-19, FreeSerif face includes 8,995 Unicode glyphs, with regular, italic, bold and bold italic styles. FreeSans face includes 4,374 Unicode glyphs, with regular, oblique, bold and bold oblique styles. FreeMono face includes 3,554 Unicode glyphs, with regular, oblique, bold and bold oblique styles. The family covers characters from the following Unicode blocks: Basic Latin Latin-1 Supplement Latin Extended-A Latin Extended-B IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) Extensions Spacing Modifier Letters Combining Diacritical Marks Greek Cyrillic Cyrillic Supplement Arabic Hebrew N'Ko Thaana Syriac Armenian Georgian Devanagari Bengali Gujarati Gurmukhi Sinhala Tamil Malayalam Tai Le Ethiopic Thai Kayah Li Cherokee Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Hanunóo Buginese Vai Phonetic Extensions Phonetic Extensions Supplement Diacritical marks Cyrillic Extended-B Tifinagh Osmanya Coptic Glagolitic Gothic Ugaritic Old Persian Phoenician Runic Braille Supplemental Arrows-A Latin Extended Additional Greek Extended General Punctuation Super and Sub scripts Currency Symbols Letterlike Symbols Number Forms Arrows Mathematical Operators Miscellaneous Technical Symbols Enclosed Alphanumerics Box Drawing Block Elements Geometric Shapes Miscellaneous Symbols Dingbats Alphabetic Presentation Forms Vietnamese (Anaam) Western music Byzantine music Mah Jong tiles Dominoes

See also Free software Unicode fonts List of typefaces Unicode typefaces References ^ Download FreeFont fonts ^ (URW)++ Homepage ^ Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview ^ BharatBhasha ^ ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/ethiopia/ethiop/ External links GNU FreeFont Free UCS Outline Fonts Project v · d · eFree and Open Source Typography Operating system typefaces GNU FreeFont · Ghostscript fonts · GNU Unifont · Droid · Liberation · Ubuntu Other typefaces Allerta  · Asana-Math · Beteckna · Bitstream Vera · Caslon Roman · Chandas · Charis SIL · Computer Modern · DejaVu · Doulos SIL · Fixedsys Excelsior · Gentium · HyperFont · Inconsolata · Junicode · Kochi · Linux Libertine · M+ · Nimbus Mono · Nimbus Roman · Nimbus Sans · OCR-A · OCR-B · PT Sans · Taigi Unicode · Tiresias · Ubuntu-Title · WenQuanYi Software FontForge · FreeType · Metafont · MetaPost · METATYPE1 · Pango · TeX Licenses SIL Open Font License · Ubuntu Font Licence Groups and People Donald Knuth · Greek Font Society · Open Font Library Free Software Unicode Typefaces List of open source typefaces · List of free software Unicode typefaces