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https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts
The Liberation(tm) Fonts is a font family which aims at metric compatibility with Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New.
https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts
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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.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts
- Owner: liberationfonts
- License: other
- Created: 2018-04-13T13:48:27.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2022-12-02T22:56:06.000Z (about 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-08-02T23:12:10.329Z (4 months ago)
- Language: Makefile
- Size: 48.8 MB
- Stars: 420
- Watchers: 15
- Forks: 22
- Open Issues: 38
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: ChangeLog
- License: LICENSE
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README
Liberation Fonts
=================
The Liberation Fonts is font collection which aims to provide document
layout compatibility as usage of Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New.
Requirements
=================
* [fontforge](http://fontforge.sourceforge.net)
* [python fonttools](https://pypi.org/project/fonttools/)
Install
============
1. Get source
```
$ git clone https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts.git
```
- Or downloading the tar.gz file from [releases](https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts/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.