cool man.. gotta try em for size.. On 5/21/07, Subir Pradhanang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Text freedom with Red Hat's Liberation fonts > > http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1532 > > --- > > Text freedom with Red Hat's Liberation fonts > By Staff Writer > 21 May, 2007 > > Linux company Red Hat has released the Liberation font set which can be used > to replace the Microsoft core truetype fonts installed on most PCs. > > The three Liberation typefaces <https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/> are > free replacements for the Windows core fonts Arial, Courier New, and Times > New Roman. The fonts, designed by Ascender > Corp<http://www.ascendercorp.com/>, > have been made to be metric equivalents of the Microsoft fonts. This means > that they occupy the exact same horizontal space that the Microsoft fonts > do, ensuring that documents don't have to be reformatted because of sizing > issues. > > Linux.com <http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/05/16/1318240> provides > the following potted history of Red Hat's font initiative: "Red Hat has a > long history of interest in high-quality fonts that allow interoperability > between operating systems. According to Mark Webbink, deputy general counsel > and secretary at Red Hat, versions of the Red Hat distribution in the late > 1990s included versions of Arial, Courier New, and Times Roman until a third > party brought a case against the company for violation of Microsoft's > copyrights. > > "The dispute was settled out of court. In 2004, Red Hat announced it was > licensing three proprietary fonts from Agfa Monotype that were metrically > equivalent to the Windows core fonts: Albany, Cumberland, and Thorndale (the > initial letter of each font is the same as the font it was designed to > replace). These fonts were distributed on the Extras CD included in the Red > Hat commercial box, but 'they weren't free and they weren't open, and that > was frustrating for us,' Webbink says." > > Red Hat released the fonts at the Red Hat summit last week under the name > Liberation. There are three sets, Sans (a substitute for Arial, Albany, > Helvetica, Nimbus Sans L, and Bitstream Vera Sans), Serif (a substitute for > Times New Roman, Thorndale, Nimbus Roman, and Bitstream Vera Serif) and Mono > (a substitute for Courier New, Cumberland, Courier, Nimbus Mono L, and > Bitstream Vera Sans Mono). > > Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora users can get the fonts through the RHN > system. Other users can download them > here<http://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/> > . > > --- > > Cheers, > Subir > > > >
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