Libertine Open Fonts Project releases version 4.4.1 (original) (raw)
| From: | | Philipp Poll <Gillian.Tiefenlicht-AT-web.de> | | --------------- | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | | To: | | Verborgene_Empfaenger:; | | Subject: | | Announcement: Libertine Open Fonts Project releases version 4.4.1 | | Date: | | Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:12:15 +0100 | | Message-ID: | | 49C52DFF.9020408@web.de |
Our project is proud to announce version 4.4.1 of our open source font /Linux Libertine/ and our new /Linux Biolinum/ font face.
The organic grotesque (sans serif) Linux Biolinum is a new member of our font family. The vertical metric is identical with that of the Libertine and the proportions fit perfectly together. Biolinum is intended for emphasizing, small point sizes etc.
Background:
Since 2003 the Libertine Open Fonts Project works on a versatile Unicode font family with an elegant, good-readable type face for daily and professional use. It is designed to give you an alternative for fonts like T*mes New Roman. We?e creating /free/ software and publish our fonts under terms of the GPL and Open Font License (OFL).
It is our aim to support the many western languages and provide a wide range of special characters. Our fonts cover the codepages of Western Latin, Greek, Cyrillic (with their specific enhancements), Hebrew, IPA and many more. Furthermore, typographical features such as ligatures, small capitals, different number styles, scientific symbols, etc. are implemented in our fonts. Linux Libertine thus contains more than 2000 characters.
Extract of the ChangeLog:
Changes to version 4.4.1 regular(-) & italic(/) & capitals (C) (20090321)
- First release of Linux Biolinum and its bold variant
- New paragraphs signs (uni00A7 and uni00B6)
- nicer guillemets uni00AB and 00BB as well as the single ones
- improved "copyright"-sign and "registered"-sign
- improved micro-sign
- further improvements in the small capitals set
- superior/inferior h, i, j, n, r has now new serifs, too
- new dotaccent.cap-glyph (slightly bigger than dotaccent) for capital glyphs
- j slightly improved upper serif (now similar to i)
- improvements in row of IPA-signs (recent serifs etc)
- Asterisk has now f-height (a bit lower than before) and reduced bearings left and right
- 0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 slight improvements
- tilde, slight improvements
- cedilla improved (now somewhat thicker)
- ae improved
- C, c, e, t new finely bulged runner
- brought some ligatures up to recent baseglyph form
- florin improved
- dansk ring accent improved -> aring
- comma accent improved, in characters with this accent the latter have now the same vertical position
- roman numbers improved
- and many smaller things I forgot to note
- as well as all that we marked as "solved" in the bug tracker
We provide a short XeTex tutorial which will enable all typography gourmets to make use of Libertine? comprehensive OpenType-features: http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/Libertine-XeTex-EN.pdf
Please visit our homepage for further information:
http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net <http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/>
Thanks!
Philipp H. Poll
Libertine Open Fonts Projekt - http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net <http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/>
Appendix
Press:
Bruce Byfield (2006): /?//Linux Libertine Open Fonts offers free Times Roman alternative?/, http://www.linux.com/articles/56565
Antje Dohmann / PAGE (2009): ?Friedliche Koexistenz?
Forrest Cook / LWN (2008):* */?The Linux Libertine Open Fonts Project?, /http://lwn.net/Articles/263610/
Hans-Joachim Baader / Pro-Linux (2008): /?Libertine Open Fonts in Version 4.1.8?,/* *http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2008/13422.html <http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2008/12157.html>
*- *Meerbusch (2007): /?//Bahn frei für das große ?Eszett??/, http://rhein-zeitung.de/on/07/10/05/service/computer/tipp...
Wikipedia:
English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine
Deutsch: <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine>http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine
Italiano: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine
French: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine
Russian: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine
Dutch: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine