Linux Libertine Open Fonts offers free Times Roman alternative

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 28, 2006 6:00 PM EDT
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Philipp H. Poll started the Linux Libertine Open Fonts project in September 2003 because of his dissatisfaction with the fonts shipped with GNU/Linux distributions. "In SUSE 9.x," he recalls, "you had to use a script to download the Microsoft core fonts if you wanted to have good TrueType fonts." To improve the situation, Poll chose to start with the basics with Linux Libertine, an alternative to Time Roman and Times New Roman, the most commonly used typefaces in computing, and to develop it using free software methodologies and tools under the GNU General Public License.

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Nice fonts jimf 0 1,065 Aug 28, 2006 6:49 PM

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