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Upright is based on the lowercase Greek letters in the typeface used by Demetrios Damilas for the edition of Isocrates, published in Milan in 1493. A digital revival, was prepared by Ralph P. Hancock, in his Milan (Mediolanum) font. Italic Greek were designed in 1802 by Richard Porson (1757 – 1808) and cut by Richard Austin. They were first used by Cambridge University Press in 1810. Capitals, Latin and Cyrillic, as well as the complete bold weights, have been designed in an attempt to create a well-balanced font. The font covers the Windows Glyph List, Greek Extended, various typographic extras and is available in regular, italic, bold and bold italic. The regular style of the font also covers IPA Extensions, Ancient Greek Numbers, Byzantine and Ancient Greek Musical Notation and several Open Type features (Case-Sensitive Forms, Small Capitals, Subscript, Superscript, Numerators, Denominators, Fractions, Old Style Figures, Historical Forms, Stylistic Alternates, Ligatures).

Musica covers the following scripts and symbols supported by The Unicode Standard: Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, some Punctuation and other Symbols, Byzantine Musical Symbols, (Western) Musical Symbols and Archaic Greek Musical Notation.

Symbola covers the following scripts and symbols supported by Unicode: Basic Latin, IPA Extensions, Spacing Modifier Letters, Combining Diacritical Marks, Greek and Coptic, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Supplement, General Punctuation, Superscripts and Subscripts, Currency Symbols, Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols, Letterlike Symbols, Number Forms, Arrows, Mathematical Operators, Miscellaneous Technical, Control Pictures, Optical Character Recognition, Box Drawing, Block Elements, Geometric Shapes, Miscellaneous Symbols, Dingbats, Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A, Supplemental Arrows-A, Supplemental Arrows-B, Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B, Supplemental Mathematical Operators, Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows, Supplemental Punctuation, Yijing Hexagram Symbols, Combining Half Marks, Specials, Byzantine Musical Symbols, Musical Symbols, Ancient Greek Musical Notation, Tai Xuan Jing Symbols, Counting Rod Numerals, Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols, Mahjong Tiles, Domino Tiles, Playing Cards, Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs, Emoticons, Transport And Map Symbols, Alchemical Symbols, et al.

The GNU Unicode Bitmap font

Alegreya was chosen as one of 53 "Fonts of the Decade" at
the ATypI Letter2 competition in September 2011, and one
of the top 14 text type systems. It was also selected in
the 2nd Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño, competition
held in Madrid in 2010.

Alegreya is a typeface originally intended for literature.
Among its crowning characteristics, it conveys a dynamic
and varied rhythm which facilitates the reading of long
texts. Also, it provides freshness to the page while
referring to the calligraphic letter, not as a literal
interpretation, but rather in a contemporary typographic language.

Allerta is an open source typeface designed for use in
signage. Allerta was designed to be easily and quickly
read from a distance. Each letter exploits the most
unique aspects of that individual letter so that each
character can be easily distinguished from any other.

Allerta has been released as an open source project so
that those countries, communities, and/or organizations
without a proper signage system may have a way of quickly
designing and implementing one. While Allerta is complete
with a large character set, because it is open source,
modification and expansion is encouraged.

For the more urgent of circumstances, Allerta Stencil
and an accompanying kit have been designed so that signage
can be created with nothing more than the kit of letters, a
can of spray paint, and the nearest available substrate.
Although the stencil kit may allude the finer points of
typographic spacing, it is intended to serve the most basic
purpose of signage: guiding people towards their destination
or towards assistance.

The name Allerta is derived from the origins of the word
alert (adj. swift, v. to advise or warn). The Italian origin
all'erta literally means on the lookout.

The Cabin font family is a humanist sans with 4 weights and true
italics, inspired by Edward Johnston’s and Eric Gill’s typefaces,
with a touch of modernism.

Cabin incorporates modern proportions, optical adjustments, and some
elements of the geometric sans.

It remains true to its roots, but has its own personality.

The weight distribution is almost monotone, although top and bottom
curves are slightly thin.

Counters of the b, g, p and q are rounded and optically adjusted. The
curved stem endings have a 10 degree angle. E and F have shorter
center arms. M is splashed.

Cardo is a large Unicode font specifically designed for the needs
of classicists, Biblical scholars, medievalists, and linguists.
It also works well for general typesetting in situations where a
high-quality Old Style font is appropriate. Its large character
set supports many modern languages as well as those needed by
scholars. Cardo also contains features that are required for
high-quality typography such as ligatures, text figures (also
known as old style numerals), true small capitals and a variety
of punctuation and space characters.

Designer: David Perry

NOTE: Automatically created during Factory devel project migration by admin.

Exo is a contemporary geometric sans serif typeface that
tries to convey a technological/futuristic feeling while
keeping an elegant design. Exo was meant to be a very
versatile font, so it has 9 weights (the maximum on the web)
each with a true italic version. It works great as a display
face but it also works good for small to intermediate size texts.

Inconsolata Bold is a Unicode typeface family that supports
languages that use the Latin script and its variants, and
could be expanded to support other scripts.

Designer: Raph Levien

Lato is a sanserif typeface family designed in the Summer
2010 by Warsaw-based designer Łukasz Dziedzic (“Lato” means
“Summer” in Polish). In December 2010 the Lato family was
published under the open-source Open Font License by his
foundry tyPoland, with support from Google.

The semi-rounded details of the letters give Lato a feeling
of warmth, while the strong structure provides stability and
seriousness.

Lato consists of five weights (plus corresponding italics),
including a beautiful hairline style. The first release only
includes the Western character set, but pan-European Latin,
Cyrillic and Greek extensions, as well as small caps and
other typographic niceties are expected in 2011.

Lekton has been designed at ISIA Urbino, Italy, and is inspired by some of the typefaces used on the Olivetti typewriters.

It was designed by: Paolo Mazzetti, Luciano Perondi, Raffaele Flaùto, Elena Papassissa, Emilio Macchia, Michela Povoleri, Tobias Seemiller, Riccardo Lorusso, Sabrina Campagna, Elisa Ansuini, Mariangela Di Pinto, Antonio Cavedoni, Marco Comastri, Luna Castroni, Stefano Faoro, Daniele Capo, and Jan Henrik Arnold.

"Nobile" is designed to work with the technologies of digital
screens and handheld devices without losing the distinctive look
more usually found in fonts designed for printing. Going back to
William Morris's baseline "Have nothing in your house that you do
not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful", the aim was to
design a font that could function well, have good legibility on
screen yet also be good loooking, not only at larger display sizes
but also right down to small text sizes.

Open Sans is a humanist sans serif typeface designed by
Steve Matteson, Type Director of Ascender Corp.

This version contains the complete 897 character set, which
includes the standard ISO Latin 1, Latin CE, Greek and Cyrillic
character sets. Open Sans was designed with an upright stress,
open forms and a neutral, yet friendly appearance. It was
optimized for print, web, and mobile interfaces, and has
excellent legibility characteristics in its letterforms.

The Android design language relies on traditional typographic tools such as scale, space, rhythm, and alignment with an underlying grid. Successful deployment of these tools is essential to help users quickly understand a screen of information.

To support such use of typography, Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) introduced a new type family named Roboto, created specifically for the requirements of UI and high-resolution screens.

Designer: Christian Robertson

Aurulent Sans is a humanist sans serif intended to be used as an interface font. The width and style is reminiscent of Luxi Sans, Lucida Sans, Tahoma, and Andale Sans UI. Aurulent currently has four styles: regular, italic, bold, and bold italic.

Designer: Stephen G. Hartke

This contains packages for IPA ex-Gothic and Mincho TrueType fonts.

"Proportional Gothic" Japanese TrueType font made by IPA
(Information-technology Promotion Agency).

This package contains the old IPA UI Gothic font that was dropped from
the latest IPA fonts.

Free fonts which are metric compatible to "Arial", "Times New Roman"
and "Courier New".

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