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Updated free fonts for Linux Libertine, Linux Biolinum, as well as some of the Arkandis Digital Foundry fonts

On Linux.org.Ru, the Free Fonts Epidemic blog says that several free (open, free) fonts were updated this year.

First of all, it is the “Linux Libertine” headset (conceived as an analogue of the “Times New Roman” size of characters), and with it available on the same site for downloading in the same set of files the “Linux Biolinum” headset.

Also several Arkandis Digital Foundry free headsets were updated at once (these are “Berenis-Pro”, “Gillius Collection” and “Tribun-Std”), as well as the “SwitzeraADF” font (it is posted on the improvements page , since it was not developed from scratch in Arkandis, and is a refinement of the font "Vera Sans").
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The author of the LORO blog post assumes that all these fonts are intended for use in printable documents, rather than in application interface elements. His judgment seems to me, however, to be too categorical: the “Linux Libertine” headset seems ready for the Web, and the “Linux Biolinum” headset would be quite suitable for sites if only kerning was ok. Apparently, Arkandis believes that their “Berenis-Pro” headset is suitable for use on websites, as long as they apply its version in WOFF format in the same archive for download as OTF.

Personally, I was greatly pleased by the presence of Dobolshevitsky Cyrillic letters in “Linux Libertine” and “Linux Biolinum” (“ѣ”, “ѵ”, “і”, “ѳ”), but the “Berenis-Pro” headset is generally for Russian less what is suitable, because it not only does not contain our letters, but is filled with spaces instead.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/96821/


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