Linux Libertine is a computer font that is open source and free software; it is dual licensed under the
GPLThe GNU General Public License is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project....
and the
OFLThe SIL Open Font License is a free and open source license designed for fonts by SIL International for use with some of their Unicode fonts. The license is considered free by the Free Software Foundation.- External links :* * * *...
. It was created by the Libertine Open Fonts Project that aims to create free and open alternatives to commercial fonts like
Times RomanTimes New Roman is a serif typeface commissioned by the British newspaper, The Times, in 1931, designed by Stanley Morison and Victor Lardent at the English branch of Monotype. It was commissioned after Stanley Morison had written an article criticizing The Times for being badly printed and,...
. It is being developed with the free font editor
FontForgeFontForge is a typeface editor program developed by George Williams. Fontforge is free software and is distributed under the BSD license...
.
Linux Libertine is a serif proportional font that looks like a 19th century book type, though it has been developed for today's usability.
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Linux Libertine is a computer font that is open source and free software; it is dual licensed under the
GPLThe GNU General Public License is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project....
and the
OFLThe SIL Open Font License is a free and open source license designed for fonts by SIL International for use with some of their Unicode fonts. The license is considered free by the Free Software Foundation.- External links :* * * *...
. It was created by the Libertine Open Fonts Project that aims to create free and open alternatives to commercial fonts like
Times RomanTimes New Roman is a serif typeface commissioned by the British newspaper, The Times, in 1931, designed by Stanley Morison and Victor Lardent at the English branch of Monotype. It was commissioned after Stanley Morison had written an article criticizing The Times for being badly printed and,...
. It is being developed with the free font editor
FontForgeFontForge is a typeface editor program developed by George Williams. Fontforge is free software and is distributed under the BSD license...
.
Linux Libertine is a serif proportional font that looks like a 19th century book type, though it has been developed for today's usability. It contains more than 2000
UnicodeUnicode is a computing industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
characters, including support for many different languages of the western
LatinThe Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. It evolved from the western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, and was initially developed by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.During the...
,
GreekThe Greek alphabet is a set of twenty-four letters that has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BCE. It is the first and oldest alphabet in the narrow sense that it notes each vowel and consonant with a separate symbol. It is as such in continuous use to...
,
CyrillicThe Cyrillic script writing system isan alphabet developed in the First Bulgarian Empire, and used in the Slavic national languages of Russian, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Rusyn, Serbian, Macedonian, and Ukrainian, and in the non-Slavic languages of Moldovan, Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Tuvan, and...
and
HebrewThe Hebrew alphabet , known variously by scholars as the Jewish script, square script, block script, and because of its place of origin, the Assyrian script is the better-known of two script standards used to write the...
typeset. Additionally it offers several
ligaturesIn writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes are joined as a single glyph. Ligatures usually replace consecutive characters sharing common components and are part of a more general class of glyphs called "contextual forms" where the specific shape of a letter depends on...
(such as ff, fi, ct, …) and has special characters like
IPAThe International Phonetic Alphabet
["The acronym 'IPA' strictly refers [...] to the 'International Phonetic Association'. But it is now such a common practice to use the acronym also to refer to the alphabet itself that resistance seems pedantic...]
characters, arrows, floral symbols, Roman numbers,
oldstyle numbersText figures are numerals typeset with varying heights in a fashion that resembles a typical line of running text, hence the name...
,
small capsIn typography, small capitals are uppercase characters set at the same height as surrounding lowercase letters or text figures...
etc. The
OpenTypeOpenType is a format for scalable computer fonts. It was built on its predecessor TrueType, retaining TrueType's basic structure and adding many intricate data structures for prescribing typographic behavior....
implementation allows automatic positioning and substitution like true fractures, ligatures and
kerningIn typography, kerning—less commonly, mortising — is the process of adjusting letter spacing in a proportional font. In a well-kerned font, the two-dimensional blank spaces between each pair of letters all have similar area.- In metal typesetting :...
.
As of 2006, the following faces are available in TTF, OTF and
source codeIn computer science, source code is any collection of statements or declarations written in some human-readable computer programming language...
:
- Regular
- Bold
- Italic
- Bolditalic
- Small capitals
Special glyphs
Linux Libertine includes the
TuxTux is a penguin character, the official mascot of the Linux kernel. Originally created as an entry to a Linux logo competition, the image of the mascot is the most commonly used icon for Linux, used in many flavors showing Tux in one way or another...
logo
at the Unicode code point U+E000 and also the
Capital ßCapital sharp s is the contestable majuscule of ß. Sharp s is nearly unique among the letters of the Latin alphabet in that it has no traditional upper case form...
.
See also