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Reacted to suggestions by Aaron Mueller.
author markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
date Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:42:59 +0200
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meillo@0 1 LOFP - Libertine Open Fonts Project
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meillo@0 3 1. OPEN FONTS PROJECT'S AIMS
meillo@0 4 We work on a serif and organic grotesque font-family for practical use in documents.
meillo@0 5 Our project aims at creating a free alternative to the standard W*ndows Font (T*mes).
meillo@0 6 But neveretheless Libertine and Biolinum are not a clone of any common font!
meillo@0 7 They have been developed from scratch and go different ways in typography
meillo@0 8 than the Times or Arial. Just the useability and the dimensions shall be similar,
meillo@0 9 Libertine should be even better for typical office use! If you want Times- and
meillo@0 10 Arial-clones go elsewhere. If you just need reliable and good typography
meillo@0 11 give our fonts a chance. If you want to know more about the design of
meillo@0 12 Libertine and Biolinum, have a look at our website.
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meillo@0 14 2. LICENSE AND OPENSOURCE
meillo@0 15 We publish our fonts under the terms of the GPL (see GPL.txt) and OFL (OFL.txt)
meillo@0 16 -> see also LICENCE.txt!
meillo@0 17 The OpenSource-tool Fontforge is used as font editor (see http://fontforge.sf.net).
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meillo@0 19 3. FONT FORMATS: TTF, OTF, SVG, WOFF
meillo@0 20 The font files are available as TTF (TrueType), OTF (OpenType),
meillo@0 21 SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and WOFF (Web Open Font Format) fonts.
meillo@0 22 The TTF-/WOFF-Family is called "Linux Libertine" and "Linux Biolinum"
meillo@0 23 and the OTF/SVG "LinuxLibertine O" and "Linux Biolinum O".
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meillo@0 25 So that both types can be installed and used parallely.
meillo@0 26 Most often TTF is the better supported format though OTF has advances in printing.
meillo@0 27 Decide yourself what is better for your purpose. OpenType-features are equally
meillo@0 28 available in both fonts. Note that OpenOffice doesn’t support OTFs, yet.
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meillo@0 30 4. THE LINUX BIOLINUM FONT FACE
meillo@0 31 Please note:
meillo@0 32 While you use Libertine-Fonts without any warranty anyway,
meillo@0 33 take special care with this young font face.
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meillo@0 35 5. HINTING
meillo@0 36 The TrueType-hinting is a complex technique and our editor FontForge doesn't support
meillo@0 37 full possibilities (but it becomes alot better version by version) ...
meillo@0 38 Since version 2.7 also the normal TTFs are hinted. If you don't like this, send me a mail.
meillo@0 39 You may also try the OpenTypes (which contain PS-Hintings which are quite
meillo@0 40 good supported by FontForge).
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meillo@0 42 6. DOWNLOAD AND CONTACT
meillo@0 43 We publish our fonts at http://www.linuxlibertine.org/.
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meillo@0 45 7. THE UNDERLINED VARIANT
meillo@0 46 Please note:
meillo@0 47 The underlined variant is recently not being maintained because its concept
meillo@0 48 doesn’t seem to be sofware-technically reliable and because of lack of interest.
meillo@0 49 The advantage of this font was that g, commas, cedillas... were not overprinted
meillo@0 50 by the line anymore. For technical reasons the space was not underlined but
meillo@0 51 you could use the _ instead. In this font it had the width of the space and
meillo@0 52 the line was at hight of the underline. The underlined variant used
meillo@0 53 an older font outline.
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meillo@0 55 Philipp Poll -- gillian at linuxlibertine.org
meillo@0 56