http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/ Find out about the newest FLOSS Fonts and News! en-us Copyright 2007 by Unifont.org http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu Apr 26 10:55:38 EDT 2007 http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/images/RSSLogo.png http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/ Dugan Chen has released an improved version of the DownloadFonts shell script available on unifont.org/fontguide. The new script changes /bin/sh to /bin/bash to avoid problems with distros that symlink /bin/sh to something other than bash. The script now also takes account of newer versions of Khmer and Thai fonts, and removes old and broken links of fonts that are no longer available. http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/ ed.trager@gmail.com Wed, 14 May 2008 11:07:05 -0400 The Libre Graphics Meeting (http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2008/index.php) is fast approaching! The meeting will be held in Wrocław , the largest city in western Poland, on May 8-11th, 2008. This year's meeting of the Text Layout Working Group for the Free Desktop will be held at LGM. If you plan on attending LGM, or even if you don't, now is a great time to brush up on your knowledge of text layout technologies on the Free Desktop. Visit http://unifont.org/TextLayout2007/ to find out what happened at the Text Layout Summit 2007 held last July 4-6 in Glasgow, United Kingdom, including videos of presentations by Eric Mader (IBM ICU), Behdad Esfahbod (Pango, HarfBuzz), Simon Hausmann (QT, HarfBuzz), and Kenichi Handa (m17n). For more information about this year's Text Layout Summit, be sure to visit http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/TextLayout/ . http://www.unifont.org/TextLayout2007/ ed.trager@gmail.com Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:07:14 -0400 The LASi development team is proud to announce the release of libLASi-1.1.0 which has significant improvements (a new build system based on CMake and some small code updates to make libLASi more robust) compared to prior releases. The new CMake-based build system allows building libLASi on both Unix and Windows platforms and automatically detects freetype version so split releases to cater to different freetype versions are no longer necessary. The robustness improvements mean that libLASi now renders an empty box rather than erroring out in those rare cases where glyph information returned by pango/cairo/fontconfig is not available or else is in a glyph form that is unusable by libLASi. The file release area (including release notes, a detailed ChangeLog, the source tarball for version 1.1.0, and an md5 checksum for that tarball) is located at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=187113. Enjoy using libLASi to make some very nice looking PostScript results and your feedback is welcome. -- Alan W. Irwin on behalf of the libLASi developers, 2008-02-08. http://unifont.org/lasi/#newrelease ed.trager@gmail.com Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:36:47 -0500 The Arkandis Digital Foundry has released a great collection of high quality Latin fonts in PostScript and TrueType/OpenType formats for professional publication and graphic work. The fonts are variously released under the AFPL and GPL with font exception licenses. The collection originated a few years ago with ADF's typographer's desire to have a set of quality free fonts for artistic endeavors that could serve as an alternative to expensive commercial fonts. The fonts have now been redeveloped for use with Scribus. Professional and aspiring graphic artists alike should not miss the opportunity to download this excellent collection of free fonts. The collection is listed under the "Scientific, Scholarly, Artistic" tab on the Unifont FontGuide. http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/index.html#artistic ed.trager@gmail.com Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:38:27 -0500 SIL International has release Unicode Yi and Tai Le fonts under the Open Font License. The Yi font was previously released under a different license. The Tai Le font is a new Unicode font with Graphite tables for proper vowel reordering. See the Southeast Asia section of the Font Guide for complete details and links. http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/ ed.trager@gmail.com Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:18:53 -0500 The STIX mathematical and scientific fonts project yesterday announced the release of the STIX fonts beta package. This release includes every glyph that is planned for the final, production release which is expected before the end of the year. The beta test period will run from 1 November through 15 December. The beta test does not include TeX support. The license for the fonts is permissive, allowing modifications and redistributions. See http://www.stixfonts.org/ to download and for font and licensing details. http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/ ed.trager@gmail.com Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:22:54 -0400 Dugan Chen as updated the DownloadFonts.sh shell script to include an environment variable specifying the Sourceforge download mirror. You can now easily set the Sourceforge mirror to a site near you. http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/ ed.trager@gmail.com Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:14:34 -0400 Elmar Kniprath's INDOLIPI software, fonts, and keyboard layout package (for WinXP) provides a number of OpenType fonts for Indic scripts, including fonts designed for writing the classical orthographies of various Indic languages. Refer to the South Asian section of the Font Guide for more information. http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/ ed.trager@gmail.com Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:20:32 -0400 The 2007 Glasgow Text Layout Summit summary page is available at http://www.unifont.org/TextLayout2007/ . In addition to providing links to presentations and the morning audio recordings, the first recorded video presentation from the afternoon of Wednesday, July 4, 2007 (Eric Mader's talk on the IBM's ICU (International Components for Unicode) layout engine) is now available. Expect the remaining videos to become available shortly. http://www.unifont.org/TextLayout2007/ ed.trager@gmail.com Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:06:12 +0000 Red Hat announced the public release of the Liberation fonts at the Red Hat Summit. These fonts are designed to be metrically equivalent to widely used proprietary Microsoft platform fonts. There are three sets of fonts, 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). The fonts were created by Ascender Corporation, a leading commercial font developer, and are currently licensed under the GPL+font exception license. See the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic section under the Europe tab for more information. http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/ ed.trager@gmail.com Fri, 11 May 2007 09:41:10 -0400 Dugan Chen has once again made a generous contribution to this resource by significantly revising and updating the DownloadFonts.sh shell script. All broken links in the script have been fixed. In addition, you can now break and resume downloading. For example, if you lose an internet connection, you can use CTRL+C to stop the script, then restart it after you obtain a new internet connection -- the script will continue where it left off. Downloading of the Sanskritweb.org's Chandas and Uttara GPL'ed Devanagari fonts has also been added to the script. Enjoy! http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/ ed.trager@gmail.com Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0400 Information about a number of OFL'ed fonts has now been added: Abyssinica SIL in the Ethiopic section under the Africa tab, Raph Levien's Century Catalogue and Inconsolata fonts in the Latin section under Europe, and Old Standard from Thessalonica.org in the Latin-Greek-Cyrillic section under the Europe tab. Stay tuned for more to come soon! Thanks go out to Nicolas Spalinger for forwarding information about these fonts. http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/ ed.trager@gmail.com Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0400 Gia Shervashidze and Vladimer Sichinava have created 14 and 16 pixel size Georgian BDF console fonts to replace those present in unifont.dbf which are considered ugly. Released under OFL 1.1. See the Georgian section in the Europe tab http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/ ed.trager@gmail.com Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0400 Yes, finally an RSS feed so you can keep abreast of all of the latest FLOSS font developments. And it is about time, isn't it? :-) http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/ ed.trager@gmail.com Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0400 Dugan Chen has kindly updated the download shell script. http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/ ed.trager@gmail.com Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0500