Nimbus Roman No9 L
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| Category | Serif |
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| Designer(s) | URW Studio; (Stanley Morison, Victor Lardent); GPL published also by Valek Fillipov |
| Foundry | URW++ |
| Date released | 1982 (1931)[1] |
Nimbus Roman is a serif typeface created by URW Studio in 1982.[1]
Nimbus Roman No 9 L is a serif typeface created by URW Studio in 1987,[2] and eventually released under the GPL and AFPL (as Type 1 font for Ghostscript) in 1996[3][4][5][6] and LPPL in 2009.[7][8][9] It features Normal, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic weights, and is one of several freely licensed fonts offered by URW++.
Although the characters are not exactly the same, Nimbus Roman No 9 L has metrics almost identical to Times and Times New Roman. It is one of the Ghostscript fonts, a free alternative to 35 basic PostScript fonts (which include Times).[10][11]
It is a standard typeface in many Linux distributions.[12][13] It was used as default font in OpenOffice.org Writer in some Linux distributions (e.g. Ubuntu - up to version 8.10; since Ubuntu 9.04 the default font was changed to Liberation Serif).
See also
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External links
- URW++ Homepage
- URW++ Nimbus Roman No9 L - (German page) commercial version, page
- Ghostscript SVN - URW fonts (Type 1 fonts)
- NimbusRoman No9 L-Regular - font metrics
- Ghostscript changelog (includes changes in Nimbus fonts)
- Fonts and font facilities supplied with Ghostscript
- Guide to Pre-Installed Fonts in Linux, Mac, and Windows (2007)
