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Liberation Fonts

The Liberation Fonts is font collection which aims to provide document layout compatibility as usage of Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New.

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Install

  1. Get source

    $ git clone https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts.git
    
    • Or downloading the tar.gz file from releases.

    • Extract the tar file:

      $ tar zxvf liberation-fonts-[VERSION].tar.gz
      
  2. Build from the source

    $ cd liberation-fonts    or   $ cd liberation-fonts-[VERSION]
    $ make
    

    The binary font files will be available in 'liberation-fonts-ttf-[VERSION]' directory.

  3. Install to system

    Fedora Users :

    • One can manually install the fonts by copying the TTFs to ~/.fonts for user wide usage
    • and/or to /usr/share/fonts/liberation for system-wide availability.
    • Then, run fc-cache to let that cached.

    Other distributions : please check out corresponding documentation.

Usage

Simply select preferred liberation font in applications and start using.

License

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

Please read file "LICENSE" for details.

For Maintainers

  1. Before packaging a new release based on a new source tarball, you have to update the version suffix in the Makefile:

    VER = [NEW_VERSION]
    
  2. After updating Makefile VER attribute, update all font metadata by executing:

    $ make versionupdate
    

    can verfy changes using ftinfo/otfinfo or fontforge itself.

  3. It is highly recommended that file 'ChangeLog' is updated to reflect changes.

  4. Create a tarball with the following command:

    $ make dist
    

    The new versioned tarball will be available in the dist/ folder as liberation-fonts-[NEW_VERSION].tar.gz.

  5. Create github tag for that [NEW_VERSION] and upload dist tarball

Credits

Please read file "AUTHORS" for list of contributors.

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The Liberation(tm) Fonts is a font family which aims at metric compatibility with Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New.

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