GNU FreeFont

FreeMono
CategoryMonospace
ClassificationMechanistic
Designer(s)Primož Peterlin, Steve White
FoundryGNU Savannah
Date created19 February 2002
Date released7 April 2005
Characters4,160
Glyphs4,178
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later with Font-exception-2.0
Websitewww.gnu.org/software/freefont/
Latest release version20120503[1] Edit this on Wikidata
Latest release date3 May 2012
FreeSans
CategorySans-serif
ClassificationNeo-grotesque
Designer(s)Primož Peterlin, Steve White
Characters4,622
Glyphs6,272
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later with Font-exception-2.0
FreeSerif
CategorySerif
ClassificationTransitional
Designer(s)Primož Peterlin, Steve White
Characters8,087
Glyphs10,537
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later with Font-exception-2.0

GNU FreeFont (also known as Free UCS Outline Fonts) is a family of free OpenType, TrueType and WOFF vector fonts, implementing as much of the Universal Character Set (UCS) as possible, aside from the very large CJK Asian character set. The project was initiated in 2002 by Primož Peterlin and is now maintained by Steve White.

The family includes three faces: FreeMono, FreeSans, and FreeSerif, each in four styles (Regular, Italic/Oblique, Bold, and Bold Italic/Oblique).

The fonts are licensed under the GPL-3.0-or-later license with the Font-exception-2.0, ensuring they may be both freely distributed and embedded or otherwise utilized within a document without the document itself being covered by the GPL. The fonts can be obtained libre from GNU Savannah.[2] They are also packaged on certain Linux distributions, including Ubuntu[3] and Arch Linux.[4]

  1. ^ "GNU FreeFont 20120503 released". 3 May 2012.
  2. ^ "GNU Project Archives". Ftp.gnu.org. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
  3. ^ "Source Package: fonts-freefont". Retrieved 2022-07-08.
  4. ^ "gnu-free-fonts". Retrieved 2022-07-08.