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

• python fonttools

  Install

  1. Get sources

  The latest sources are available via github by checking out the repo:

  $ git clone https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts

  Or downloading the tar.gz file via github. eg. 2.00.5 can be retrieved via:

  $ wget https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts/files/2926169/liberation-fonts-2.00.5.tar.gz

  You can extract the files using the following command where VERSION=2.00.4:

  $ 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

  Before packaging a new release based on a new source tarball, you have to update the version suffix in the Makefile:

  VER = [VERSION]

  Make sure that the defined version corresponds to the font software metadata which you can check with ftinfo/otfinfo or fontforge itself. It is highly recommended that file 'ChangeLog' is updated to reflect changes.

  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.

  Credits

  Please read file "AUTHORS" for list of contributors.