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Open-source Unicode typefaces

Index Open-source Unicode typefaces

A few projects exist to provide free and open-source Unicode typefaces, i.e. Unicode typefaces which are open-source and designed to contain glyphs of all Unicode characters. [1]

85 relations: Adobe Systems, Aladdin Free Public License, Android (operating system), Apache License, Arabeyes, Armenian alphabet, Bitmap, Bitstream Vera, BSD licenses, Century type family, Charis SIL, CJK characters, Computer Modern, Courier (typeface), Cypriot syllabary, Cyrillic script, DejaVu fonts, Digital divide, Doulos SIL, Droid fonts, Fira Sans, Fixed (typeface), Fixedsys Excelsior, Font, FontForge, Gentium, Ghostscript, Glagolitic script, Glyph, GNU General Public License, GNU Unifont, Google, GPL font exception, Han unification, Helvetica, Jomolhari (typeface), Junicode, KDE, LaTeX Project Public License, Liberation fonts, Linear B, Linux, Linux Libertine, List of CJK fonts, M+ FONTS, Medieval Unicode Font Initiative, MIT License, Nimbus Mono L, Nimbus Roman No. 9 L, Nimbus Sans, ..., Noto fonts, Old Persian cuneiform, Open-source model, OpenType, Operating system, Osmanya alphabet, Palatino, Permissive software licence, Phoenician alphabet, Plane (Unicode), PostScript, Public domain, Roboto, Shavian alphabet, SIL International, SIL Open Font License, Source Code Pro, Source Han Sans, Source Han Serif, Source Sans Pro, Source Serif Pro, Sylheti Nagari, Tai Le (Unicode block), Thaana, Tifinagh, Times New Roman, TrueType, Ubuntu (typeface), Ugaritic, Unicode, Unicode font, URW++, Vietnamese alphabet, X.Org Server, XFree86. Expand index (35 more) »

Adobe Systems

Adobe Systems Incorporated, commonly known as Adobe, is an American multinational computer software company.

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Aladdin Free Public License

The Aladdin Free Public License, abbreviated AFPL, is a license written by L. Peter Deutsch for his Ghostscript PostScript language interpreter.

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Android (operating system)

Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google, based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open source software and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

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Apache License

The Apache License is a permissive free software license written by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).

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Arabeyes

Arabeyes is a Free Open Source project that is aimed at fully supporting the Arabic language in the Unix/Linux environment.

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Armenian alphabet

The Armenian alphabet (Հայոց գրեր Hayoc' grer or Հայոց այբուբեն Hayoc' aybowben; Eastern Armenian:; Western Armenian) is an alphabetical writing system used to write Armenian.

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Bitmap

In computing, a bitmap is a mapping from some domain (for example, a range of integers) to bits.

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Bitstream Vera

Vera is a group typeface (font) with a liberal license.

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BSD licenses

BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and redistribution of covered software.

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Century type family

Century is a family of serif type faces particularly intended for body text.

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Charis SIL

Charis SIL is a transitional serif typeface developed by SIL International based on Bitstream Charter, one of the first fonts designed for laser printers.

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CJK characters

In internationalization, CJK is a collective term for the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, all of which include Chinese characters and derivatives (collectively, CJK characters) in their writing systems.

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Computer Modern

Computer Modern is the original family of typefaces used by the typesetting program TeX.

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Courier (typeface)

Courier is a monospaced slab serif typeface designed to resemble the output from a strike-on typewriter.

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Cypriot syllabary

The Cypriot or Cypriote syllabary is a syllabic script used in Iron Age Cyprus, from about the 11th to the 4th centuries BCE, when it was replaced by the Greek alphabet.

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Cyrillic script

The Cyrillic script is a writing system used for various alphabets across Eurasia (particularity in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and North Asia).

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DejaVu fonts

The DejaVu fonts are modifications of the Bitstream Vera fonts designed for greater coverage of Unicode, as well as providing more styles.

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Digital divide

A digital divide is an economic and social inequality with regard to access to, use of, or impact of information and communication technologies (ICT).

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Doulos SIL

Doulos SIL is a serif typeface developed by SIL International, very similar to Times or Times New Roman.

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Droid fonts

Droid is a font family first released in 2007 and created by Ascender Corporation for use by the Open Handset Alliance platform Android and licensed under the Apache License.

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Fira Sans

Fira Sans (initially called Feura Sans) is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Erik Spiekermann, Ralph du Carrois, Anja Meiners and Botio Nikoltchev of Carrois Type Design for the Firefox OS.

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Fixed (typeface)

misc-fixed is a collection of monospace bitmap fonts that is distributed with the X Window System.

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Fixedsys Excelsior

Fixedsys Excelsior is an unofficial pan-Unicode extension of the popular Microsoft font Fixedsys.

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Font

In metal typesetting, a font was a particular size, weight and style of a typeface.

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FontForge

FontForge is a font editor which supports many common font formats.

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Gentium

Gentium (Latin for "of the nations") is a Unicode serif typeface designed by Victor Gaultney.

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Ghostscript

Ghostscript is a suite of software based on an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages.

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Glagolitic script

The Glagolitic script (Ⰳⰾⰰⰳⱁⰾⰹⱌⰰ Glagolitsa) is the oldest known Slavic alphabet.

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Glyph

In typography, a glyph is an elemental symbol within an agreed set of symbols, intended to represent a readable character for the purposes of writing.

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GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or GPL) is a widely used free software license, which guarantees end users the freedom to run, study, share and modify the software.

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GNU Unifont

The GNU Unifont by Roman Czyborra is a free bitmap font that covers the entire Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), using an intermediate bitmapped font format.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

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GPL font exception

The GPL font exception clause (or GPL+FE, for short) is an optional clause that can be added to the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) permitting digital fonts shared with that license to be embedded within a digital document file without requiring the document itself to also be shared with GPL.

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Han unification

Han unification is an effort by the authors of Unicode and the Universal Character Set to map multiple character sets of the so-called CJK languages into a single set of unified characters.

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Helvetica

Helvetica or Neue Haas Grotesk is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with input from Eduard Hoffmann.

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Jomolhari (typeface)

Jomolhari is a Tibetan script Uchen font created by Christopher Fynn, freely available under the Open Font License.

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Junicode

Junicode ("Junius-Unicode") is a free (SIL Open Font License) old-style serif typeface developed by Peter S. Baker of the University of Virginia.

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KDE

KDE is an international free software community that develops Free and Open Source based software.

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LaTeX Project Public License

The LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL) is a software license originally written for the LaTeX system.

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Liberation fonts

Liberation is the collective name of four TrueType font families: Liberation Sans, Liberation Sans Narrow, Liberation Serif and Liberation Mono.

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Linear B

Linear B is a syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of Greek.

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Linux

Linux is a family of free and open-source software operating systems built around the Linux kernel.

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Linux Libertine

Linux Libertine is a digital typeface created by the Libertine Open Fonts Project, which aims to create free and open alternatives to proprietary typefaces such as Times New Roman.

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List of CJK fonts

This is a list of notable CJK fonts (computer fonts which contain a large range of Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters).

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M+ FONTS

M+ FONTS are Japanese font families designed by Coji Morishita.

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Medieval Unicode Font Initiative

In digital typography, the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative (MUFI) is a project which aims to coordinate the encoding and display of special characters in medieval texts written in the Latin alphabet, which are not encoded as part of Unicode.

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MIT License

The MIT License is a permissive free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Nimbus Mono L

Nimbus Mono is a monospaced typeface created by URW Studio in 1984, and eventually released under the GPL and AFPL (as Type 1 font for Ghostscript) in 1996 and LPPL in 2009.

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Nimbus Roman No. 9 L

Nimbus Roman is a serif typeface created by URW Studio in 1982.

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Nimbus Sans

Nimbus Sans is a sans-serif typeface created by URW++, based on Helvetica.

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Noto fonts

Noto is a font family comprising over a hundred individual fonts, which are together designed to cover all the scripts encoded in the Unicode standard.

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Old Persian cuneiform

Old Persian cuneiform is a semi-alphabetic cuneiform script that was the primary script for Old Persian.

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Open-source model

The open-source model is a decentralized software-development model that encourages open collaboration.

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OpenType

OpenType is a format for scalable computer fonts.

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Operating system

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs.

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Osmanya alphabet

The Osmanya alphabet (Farta Cismaanya; Osmanya), also known as Far Soomaali ("Somali writing") and, in Arabic, as al-kitābah al-ʿuthmānīyah, is a writing script created to transcribe the Somali language.

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Palatino

Palatino is the name of an old-style serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf, initially released in 1949 by the Stempel foundry and later by other companies, most notably the Mergenthaler Linotype Company.

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Permissive software licence

A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-like or BSD-style license, is a free software software license with minimal requirements about how the software can be redistributed.

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Phoenician alphabet

The Phoenician alphabet, called by convention the Proto-Canaanite alphabet for inscriptions older than around 1050 BC, is the oldest verified alphabet.

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Plane (Unicode)

In the Unicode standard, a plane is a continuous group of 65,536 (216) code points.

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PostScript

PostScript (PS) is a page description language in the electronic publishing and desktop publishing business.

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Public domain

The public domain consists of all the creative works to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.

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Roboto

Roboto is a neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface family developed by Google as the system font for its mobile operating system Android.

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Shavian alphabet

The Shavian alphabet (also known as the Shaw alphabet) is an alphabet conceived as a way to provide simple, phonetic orthography for the English language to replace the difficulties of conventional spelling.

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SIL International

SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics) is a U.S.-based, worldwide, Christian non-profit organization, whose main purpose is to study, develop and document languages, especially those that are lesser-known, in order to expand linguistic knowledge, promote literacy, translate the Christian Bible into local languages, and aid minority language development.

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SIL Open Font License

The SIL Open Font License (or OFL in short) is a free and open source license designed for fonts by SIL International for use with many of their Unicode fonts, including Gentium Plus, Charis SIL, and Andika.

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Source Code Pro

Source Code Pro is a monospaced sans serif typeface created by Paul D. Hunt for Adobe Systems.

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Source Han Sans

Source Han Sans are sans-serif gothic typeface families created by Adobe and Google.

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Source Han Serif

Source Han Serif, also known as Noto Serif CJK is a serif Song/Ming typeface created by Adobe and Google.

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Source Sans Pro

Source Sans Pro is a sans serif typeface created by Paul D. Hunt for Adobe Systems.

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Source Serif Pro

Source Serif Pro is a serif typeface created by Frank Grießhammer for Adobe Systems.

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Sylheti Nagari

Sylheti Nagari (ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ ꠘꠣꠉꠞꠤ Silôṭi Nagri) is an endangered script used for writing Sylheti.

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Tai Le (Unicode block)

Tai Le is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Tai Le language.

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Thaana

Thaana, Taana or Tāna (  in Tāna script) is the present writing system of the Maldivian language spoken in the Maldives.

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Tifinagh

Tifinagh (also written Tifinaɣ in the Berber Latin alphabet; Neo-Tifinagh:; Tuareg Tifinagh: or) is an abjad script used to write the Berber languages.

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Times New Roman

Times New Roman is a serif typeface designed for legibility in body text.

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TrueType

TrueType is an outline font standard developed by Apple and Microsoft in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript.

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Ubuntu (typeface)

Ubuntu is an OpenType-based font family, designed to be a modern, humanist-style typeface by London-based type foundry Dalton Maag, with funding by Canonical Ltd.

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Ugaritic

Ugaritic is an extinct Northwest Semitic language discovered by French archaeologists in 1929.

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Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems.

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Unicode font

A Unicode font is a computer font that maps glyphs to Unicode characters (i.e. the glyphs in the font can be accessed using code points defined in the Unicode Standard).

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URW++

URW Type Foundry GmbH is a typeface foundry based in Hamburg Germany.

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Vietnamese alphabet

The Vietnamese alphabet (chữ Quốc ngữ; literally "national language script") is the modern writing system for the Vietnamese language.

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X.Org Server

X.Org Server is the free and open source implementation of the display server for the X Window System stewarded by the X.Org Foundation.

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XFree86

XFree86 was an implementation of the X Window System.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_Unicode_typefaces

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