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diff --git a/assets/fonts/freefont/README b/assets/fonts/freefont/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d83f4a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/assets/fonts/freefont/README @@ -0,0 +1,127 @@ +-*-text-*- + GNU FreeFont + +The GNU FreeFont project aims to provide a useful set of free scalable +(i.e., OpenType) fonts covering as much as possible of the ISO 10646/Unicode +UCS (Universal Character Set). + +Statement of Purpose +-------------------- + +The practical reason for putting glyphs together in a single font face is +to conveniently mix symbols and characters from different writing systems, +without having to switch fonts. + +Coverage +-------- + +FreeFont covers the following character ranges +* Latin, Cyrillic, and Arabic, with supplements for many languages +* Greek, Hebrew, Armenian, Georgian, Thaana, Syriac +* Devanagari, Bengali, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Sinhala, Tamil, Malayalam +* Thai, Tai Le, Kayah Li, Hanunóo, Buginese +* Cherokee, Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics +* Ethiopian, Tifnagh, Vai, Osmanya, Coptic +* Glagolitic, Gothic, Runic, Ugaritic, Old Persian, Phoenician, Old Italic +* Braille, International Phonetic Alphabet +* currency symbols, general punctuation and diacritical marks, dingbats +* mathematical symbols, including much of the TeX repertoire of symbols +* technical symbols: APL, OCR, arrows, +* geometrical shapes, box drawing +* musical symbols, gaming symbols, miscellaneous symbols + etc. +For more detail see <http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/coverage.html> + +Editing +------- + +The free outline font editor, George Williams' FontForge +<http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/> is used for editing the fonts. + +Design Issues +------------- + +Which font shapes should be made? Historical style terms like Renaissance +or Baroque letterforms cannot be applied beyond Latin/Cyrillic/Greek +scripts to any greater extent than Kufi or Nashki can be applied beyond +Arabic script; "italic" is strictly meaningful only for Latin letters, +although many scripts such as Cyrillic have a history with "cursive" and +many others with "oblique" faces. + +However, most modern writing systems have typographic formulations for +contrasting uniform and modulated character stroke widths, and since the +advent of the typewriter, most have developed a typographic style with +uniform-width characters. + +Accordingly, the FreeFont family has one monospaced - FreeMono - and two +proportional faces (one with uniform stroke - FreeSans - and one with +modulated stroke - FreeSerif). + +The point of having characters from different writing systems in one font +is that mixed text should look good, and so each FreeFont face contains +characters of similar style and weight. + +Licensing +--------- + +Free UCS scalable fonts is free software; you can redistribute it and/or +modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published +by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or +(at your option) any later version. + +The fonts are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but +WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY +or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License +for more details. + +You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along +with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., +51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. + +As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this font, and +embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the document, this +font does not by itself cause the resulting document to be covered by the +GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any +other reasons why the document might be covered by the GNU General Public +License. If you modify this font, you may extend this exception to your +version of the font, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not +wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. + +Files and their suffixes +------------------------ + +The files with .sfd (Spline Font Database) are in FontForge's native format. +They may be used to modify the fonts. + +TrueType fonts are the files with the .ttf (TrueType Font) suffix. These +are ready to use in Linux/Unix, on Apple Mac OS, and on Microsoft Windows +systems. + +OpenType fonts (with suffix .otf) are preferred for use on Linux/Unix, +but *not* for recent Microsoft Windows systems. +See the INSTALL file for more information. + +Web Open Font Format files (with suffix .woff) are for use in Web sites. +See the webfont_guidelines.txt for further information. + +Further information +------------------- + +Home page of GNU FreeFont: + http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/ + +More information is at the main project page of Free UCS scalable fonts: + http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/ + +To report problems with GNU FreeFont, it is best to obtain a Savannah +account and post reports using that account on + https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/ + +Public discussions about GNU FreeFont may be posted to the mailing list + freefont-bugs@gnu.org + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Original author: Primoz Peterlin +Current administrator: Steve White <stevan.white@googlemail.com> + +$Id: README,v 1.10 2011-06-12 07:14:12 Stevan_White Exp $ |