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| date | Sat, 03 Mar 2012 12:55:57 +0100 |
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| 1 LOFP - Libertine Open Fonts Project | |
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| 3 1. OPEN FONTS PROJECT'S AIMS | |
| 4 We work on a serif and organic grotesque font-family for practical use in documents. | |
| 5 Our project aims at creating a free alternative to the standard W*ndows Font (T*mes). | |
| 6 But neveretheless Libertine and Biolinum are not a clone of any common font! | |
| 7 They have been developed from scratch and go different ways in typography | |
| 8 than the Times or Arial. Just the useability and the dimensions shall be similar, | |
| 9 Libertine should be even better for typical office use! If you want Times- and | |
| 10 Arial-clones go elsewhere. If you just need reliable and good typography | |
| 11 give our fonts a chance. If you want to know more about the design of | |
| 12 Libertine and Biolinum, have a look at our website. | |
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| 14 2. LICENSE AND OPENSOURCE | |
| 15 We publish our fonts under the terms of the GPL (see GPL.txt) and OFL (OFL.txt) | |
| 16 -> see also LICENCE.txt! | |
| 17 The OpenSource-tool Fontforge is used as font editor (see http://fontforge.sf.net). | |
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| 19 3. FONT FORMATS: TTF, OTF, SVG, WOFF | |
| 20 The font files are available as TTF (TrueType), OTF (OpenType), | |
| 21 SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and WOFF (Web Open Font Format) fonts. | |
| 22 The TTF-/WOFF-Family is called "Linux Libertine" and "Linux Biolinum" | |
| 23 and the OTF/SVG "LinuxLibertine O" and "Linux Biolinum O". | |
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| 25 So that both types can be installed and used parallely. | |
| 26 Most often TTF is the better supported format though OTF has advances in printing. | |
| 27 Decide yourself what is better for your purpose. OpenType-features are equally | |
| 28 available in both fonts. Note that OpenOffice doesn’t support OTFs, yet. | |
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| 30 4. THE LINUX BIOLINUM FONT FACE | |
| 31 Please note: | |
| 32 While you use Libertine-Fonts without any warranty anyway, | |
| 33 take special care with this young font face. | |
| 34 | |
| 35 5. HINTING | |
| 36 The TrueType-hinting is a complex technique and our editor FontForge doesn't support | |
| 37 full possibilities (but it becomes alot better version by version) ... | |
| 38 Since version 2.7 also the normal TTFs are hinted. If you don't like this, send me a mail. | |
| 39 You may also try the OpenTypes (which contain PS-Hintings which are quite | |
| 40 good supported by FontForge). | |
| 41 | |
| 42 6. DOWNLOAD AND CONTACT | |
| 43 We publish our fonts at http://www.linuxlibertine.org/. | |
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| 45 7. THE UNDERLINED VARIANT | |
| 46 Please note: | |
| 47 The underlined variant is recently not being maintained because its concept | |
| 48 doesn’t seem to be sofware-technically reliable and because of lack of interest. | |
| 49 The advantage of this font was that g, commas, cedillas... were not overprinted | |
| 50 by the line anymore. For technical reasons the space was not underlined but | |
| 51 you could use the _ instead. In this font it had the width of the space and | |
| 52 the line was at hight of the underline. The underlined variant used | |
| 53 an older font outline. | |
| 54 | |
| 55 Philipp Poll -- gillian at linuxlibertine.org | |
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