GNU FreeFont

FreeMono

Category	Monospace
Classification	Mechanistic
Designer(s)	Primož Peterlin, Steve White
Foundry	GNU Savannah
Date created	19 February 2002
Date released	7 April 2005
Characters	4,160
Glyphs	4,178
License	GPL-3.0-or-later with Font-exception-2.0
Website	www.gnu.org/software/freefont/
Latest release version	20120503[1]
Latest release date	3 May 2012

FreeSans

Category	Sans-serif
Classification	Neo-grotesque
Designer(s)	Primož Peterlin, Steve White
Characters	4,622
Glyphs	6,272
License	GPL-3.0-or-later with Font-exception-2.0

FreeSerif

Category	Serif
Classification	Transitional
Designer(s)	Primož Peterlin, Steve White
Characters	8,087
Glyphs	10,537
License	GPL-3.0-or-later with Font-exception-2.0

GNU FreeFont (also known as Free UCS Outline Fonts) is a family of free OpenType, TrueType and WOFF vector fonts, implementing as much of the Universal Character Set (UCS) as possible, aside from the very large CJK Asian character set. The project was initiated in 2002 by Primož Peterlin and is now maintained by Steve White.

The family includes three faces: FreeMono, FreeSans, and FreeSerif, each in four styles (Regular, Italic/Oblique, Bold, and Bold Italic/Oblique).

The fonts are licensed under the GPL-3.0-or-later license with the Font-exception-2.0, ensuring they may be both freely distributed and embedded or otherwise utilized within a document without the document itself being covered by the GPL. The fonts can be obtained libre from GNU Savannah.^[2] They are also packaged on certain Linux distributions, including Ubuntu^[3] and Arch Linux.^[4]