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