{"id":49,"date":"2007-06-07T17:42:21","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T16:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/archives\/49"},"modified":"2007-06-13T08:20:24","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T07:20:24","slug":"redhat-liberation-fonts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/archives\/49","title":{"rendered":"RedHat Liberation Fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I discovered that RedHat released a set of fonts under GPL which are approximately metrically equivalent to the most used Microsoft fonts.<\/p>\n<p>Arial ~ Liberation Sans<br \/>\nTimes New Roman ~ Liberation Serif<br \/>\nCourier New ~ Liberation Mono<\/p>\n<p>The Liberation fonts are not yet complete (no full hinting, yet), still they look quite good already, in my opinion. The fonts will be complete at the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.redhat.com\/2007\/05\/09\/liberation-fonts\/\">RedHat&#8217;s announcement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download the package containing the three truetype fonts here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redhat.com\/promo\/fonts\/\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to RedHat! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>There is still one thing though: We should have a free font like &#8220;Arial Unicode MS&#8221;, containing all the characters you can think of&#8230; right now I still have to use Arial Unicode MS as fallback substitution, because there are only very few chinese characters in the Liberation fonts.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE (2007-06-13):<br \/>\nA small sample of the Liberation Sans font, rendered by Qt \/ KDE with anti-aliasing and full sub-pixel hinting (RGB), hinting style: full:<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/liberationsans.png' title='Sample of the Liberation Sans font'><img src='http:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/liberationsans.thumbnail.png' alt='Sample of the Liberation Sans font' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I discovered that RedHat released a set of fonts under GPL which are approximately metrically equivalent to the most used Microsoft fonts. Arial ~ Liberation Sans Times New Roman ~ Liberation Serif Courier New ~ Liberation Mono The Liberation fonts are not yet complete (no full hinting, yet), still they look quite good already, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/archives\/49\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RedHat Liberation Fonts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}