Linux Libertine

Linux Libertine is a font for computers that is OpenSource and free in the sense of the GPL. It belongs to the Libertine Open Fonts Project that aims at creating free and open type fonts to give users the alternative to commercial fonts like Times Roman.

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 1400 characters in Unicode and therefore supports many different languages of the western Latin, Greek and Cyrillic typeset. Additionally it offers several ligatures (such as ff, fi, ct,..) and has special characters like IPA characters, arrows, floral symbols, roman numbers, mediaeval numbers, etc.

Sample text of Linux Libertine

Up to now there are the following faces available:

• regular
• bold
• italic
• bolditalic
• underlined
• small capitals

Other OpenSource fonts are:

• Gentium
• Freefont
• DejaVu fonts

See also

• List of typefaces
• Unicode fonts

External links

• official website