Nimbus Roman No. 9 L
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| Category | Serif |
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| Classification | Transitional |
| Designer(s) | URW Studio; (Stanley Morison, Victor Lardent); GPL published also by Valek Fillipov |
| Foundry | URW++ |
| Date released | 1982 (1931)[1] |
| Design based on | Times New Roman |
| Variations | URW Heisei Mincho |
| Website | www |
Nimbus Roman is a serif typeface created by URW Studio in 1982.[1]
Nimbus Roman No. 9 L is a serif typeface created by URW Studio in 1987,[2] and eventually released under the GPL and AFPL (as Type 1 font for Ghostscript) in 1996[3][4][5][6] and LPPL in 2009.[7][8][9] It features Normal, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic weights, and is one of several freely licensed fonts offered by URW++.
Although the characters are not exactly the same, Nimbus Roman No. 9 L has metrics almost identical to Times New Roman and Times Roman. It is one of the Ghostscript fonts, a free alternative to 35 basic PostScript fonts (which include Times).[10][11]
It is a standard typeface in many Linux distributions.[12][13]
See also
- Nimbus Mono L
- Nimbus Sans L
- Free software Unicode typefaces
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Nimbus Roman". URW++. http://www.urwpp.de/cgi-bin1/dalcgi/source/fontliste0.htd?sprache=english&auswahl=-1&bInfoSta=$false&bInfoDes=$true&fontnummer=n020003d&o2pb-id=wd3bbc0077da97a92c9987dbeae12bccd5a861fbdec.
- ↑ "Nimbus Roman No. 9 L". URW++. http://www.urwpp.de/cgi-bin1/dalcgi/source/fontliste0.htd?sprache=english&auswahl=-1&fontnummer=n021003l&ghpb-id=wd98918cb879ba25e39987dbeae12bccd5a861fbdec.[yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
- ↑ Finally! Good-quality free (GPL) basic-35 PostScript Type 1 fonts., http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/378/1996/5/0/2064811/, retrieved 2010-05-06
- ↑ (TXT) Finally! Good-quality free (GPL) basic-35 PostScript Type 1 fonts., http://www.tug.org/fonts/deutsch-urw.txt, retrieved 2010-05-06
- ↑ "Fonts and TeX". 2009-12-19. http://www.tug.org/fonts/.
- ↑ Five years after: Report on international TEX font projects, 2007, http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb29-1/tb91ludwichowski-fonts.pdf, retrieved 2010-05-06
- ↑ URW++ making original 35 fonts available under LPPL, http://www.tug.org/fonts/lppl-urw.txt, retrieved 2010-05-06
- ↑ (TAR.GZ) ghostscript-fonts-std-4.0.tar.gz - GhostScript 4.0 standard fonts - AFPL license, 1996-06-28, http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/aladdin/fonts/ghostscript-fonts-std-4.0.tar.gz, retrieved 2010-05-06
- ↑ (TAR.GZ) ghostscript-fonts-std-6.0.tar.gz - GhostScript 6.0 standard fonts - GPL license, 1999-12-22, http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/aladdin/fonts/ghostscript-fonts-std-6.0.tar.gz, retrieved 2010-05-06
- ↑ "Fonts and font facilities supplied with Ghostscript". http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/current/Fonts.htm.
- ↑ "Linux fonts (mostly X11)". 2009-08-15. http://www.sabi.co.uk/Notes/linuxFonts.html.
- ↑ "Ghostscript SVN - URW fonts". http://code.google.com/p/ghostscript/source/browse/#svn/trunk/urw-fonts.
- ↑ "Debian package - gsfonts". http://packages.debian.org/sid/gsfonts.
External links
- URW++ Homepage
- URW++ Nimbus Roman - commercial version
- URW++ Nimbus Roman Global - commercial version
- URW++ Nimbus Roman No. 9 - commercial version
- URW++ Nimbus Roman No. 9 L - commercial version
- Ghostscript Git - URW fonts (Type 1, OTF and TTF fonts)
- Nimbus Roman No. 9 L-Regular - font metrics
- Ghostscript changelog (includes changes in Nimbus fonts)
- Fonts and font facilities supplied with Ghostscript
- Guide to Pre-Installed Fonts in Linux, Mac, and Windows (2007)
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