Ubuntu Font Study
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Ubuntu Light Ubuntu Regular Ubuntu Bold The Ubuntu Font Family are a set of Ubuntu Regular fonts. thirteen of erage Coverage matching new libre/open fonts. The de- Ubuntu Regular cov- intended an with family typeface h bnuFn aiyi sans-serif a is Family Font Ubuntu The 1,200 glyphs, 200–250 languages velopment is being funded by Canonical Ubuntu Regular at n figures and Facts (native languages of 3 billion peo- on behalf the wider Free Software com- munity and the Ubuntu project. The Ubuntu Regular ple!). technical font design work and im- languages. plementation is being undertaken by Ubuntu Regular written more many cover to extended Dalton Maag. be will project Family Font Ubuntu the Both the final font True- Ubuntu Regular So choice. their of language the in type/OpenType files and the design software their use to able be should files used to produce the font family are Ubuntu Regular user every that states which ophy distributed under an open licence and philos- Ubuntu’s with tune in world Ubuntu Regular the around users Ubuntu various the you are expressly encouraged to exper- Ubuntu Regular by used languages the all includes iment, modify, share and improve. The Ubuntu Regular Family Font Ubuntu the of scope The typeface is sans-serif, uses OpenType Ubuntu Regular Medium Ubuntu features and is manually hinted for clar- Ubuntu Regular ity on desktop and mobile computing Ubuntu Regular screens. Ubuntu Regular Created by István Szántai on 13/09/2011 Ubuntu Light Italic Ubuntu Regular Italic Ubuntu Medium Italic Technology Design The four Latin characters, ‘n o H O’ • OpenType-based TTF (TrueType) helped to define a guide for around 80- • Alternative glyphs (e.g. propor- percent of the remaining characters. tional/non-proportional/super- Extensive manual hinting has been per- script/subscript numerals) formed for rendered sizes below 60 pixels-per-em. • Debugging glyphs (U+EFFD, Software used: U+EFFE, U+EFFF, U+F000) giving face, version, grayscale level and • Fontlab Studio pixels-per-em digit display) • Microsoft Visual Truetype (VTT) The pixels-per-em 7-segment digits • In-house Python-based accent are driven by the hint engine (substi- placement scripts tuted from the Deja fonts), so if hinting is by default off (e.g. Firefox) then the out- All rights belong to their respective owners. put will show as a pair of ‘88’ numerals. Ubuntu Bold Italic.