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