Liberation Fonts
I must have been a typographer in my previous life, because news like the release of RedHat’s new Liberation font package excites me to no end.
You are free to use these fonts on any system you would like. You are free to redistribute them under the GPL+exception license found in the download. Using these fonts does not subject your documents to the GPL—it liberates them from any proprietary claim. Once you have installed these fonts, we encourage you to make them your default in Thunderbird, Firefox, and Open Office. Heck, for that matter make them your default in Microsoft® Office®, in Microsoft Windows®, in Apple OSX®…in anything you would like. In many applications you can set Times New Roman, Arial, and Courier New to convert to these fonts.
This is just one way for Red Hat to say thank you to all our friends in the open source community for all you have done to make us successful.
The serif typeface is quite nice, and reminds me of a cross between Cambria and Transitional 521. The sans and monospaced fonts seem a bit plain when compared to, say, Consolas and / or Corbel, but I suppose anything’s better than Arial or Helvetica these days.
