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<div>'''Linux Libertine''' is a font for computers that is open source and free in the sense of the [[GNU General Public License|GPL]]; it is dual licensed under the [[SIL Open Font License|OFL]]. It belongs to the [http://linuxlibertine.sf.net Libertine Open Fonts Project] that aims at creating free and open type fonts to give users the alternative to commercial fonts like [[Times Roman]]. It is being developed with the free font editor [[FontForge]].<ref>Bruce Byfield (2006): ''Linux Libertine Open Fonts offers free Times Roman alternative'', http://www.linux.com/articles/56565</ref>[[Image:Libertine sample.svg|SVG sample of Linux Libertine|thumb]]<br />
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Linux Libertine is a serif proportional font with the look of a 19th century book type, though it has been developed for today usability. It contains more than 2000 characters in [[Unicode]] and therefore supports many different languages of the western [[Latin Alphabet|Latin]], [[Greek Alphabet|Greek]], [[Cyrillic alphabet|Cyrillic]] and [[Hebrew alphabet|Hebrew]] typeset. Additionally it offers several [[Ligature (typography)|ligatures]] (such as ff, fi, ct,..) and has special characters like [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]] characters, arrows, floral symbols, [[Roman numbers]], [[text figures|oldstyle numbers]], [[small capitals]] etc. The implementation of [[OpenType]] allows automatic positioning and substitution like for true fractures, ligatures and [[kerning]].[[Image:LinuxLibertine-2.1.0.png|Image:Libertine sample.svg|Sample text of Linux Libertine|thumb]]<br />
As of 2006, the following faces are available in TTF, OTF and [[Source code]]:<br />
* Regular.<br />
* Bold.<br />
* Italic.<br />
* Bolditalic.<br />
* Underlined.<br />
* Small capitals.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Free software Unicode fonts]]<br />
* [[Unicode fonts]]<br />
* [[List of typefaces]]<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [http://linuxlibertine.sf.net official website]<br />
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[[Category:Serif typefaces]]<br />
[[Category:Unicode typefaces]]<br />
[[Category:Free software Unicode typefaces]]<br />
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