Nimbus Mono is a
monospaced
A monospaced font, also called a fixed-pitch, fixed-width, or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space. This contrasts with variable-width fonts, where the letters and spac ...
typeface
A typeface (or font family) is the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight (e.g. bold), slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font.
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created by
URW Studio in 1984,
and eventually released under the
GPL
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and
AFPL
The Aladdin Free Public License, abbreviated AFPL, is a license written by L. Peter Deutsch for his Ghostscript PostScript language interpreter.
History
The license was derived from the GNU General Public License, but differs on two key points ...
(as
Type 1 font
PostScript fonts are font files encoded in outline font specifications developed by Adobe Systems for professional digital typesetting. This system uses PostScript file format to encode font information.
"PostScript fonts" may also separately be ...
for Ghostscript) in 1996 and
LPPL in 2009. In 2017, the font, alongside other Core 35 fonts, has been additionally licensed under the terms of
OFL. It features Normal, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic weights, and is one of several freely licensed fonts offered by
URW++. Although not exactly the same, Nimbus Mono has metrics and glyphs that are very similar to
Courier
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and Courier New.
It is one of the
Ghostscript
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fonts, free alternatives to 35 basic
PostScript fonts
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"PostScript fonts" may also separately be ...
(which include Courier). It is a standard typeface in many Linux distributions.
External links
Tex Gyre Cursoris a derivative of Nimbus Mono L with additional glyphs.
See also
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Nimbus Sans L
Nimbus Sans is a sans-serif typeface created by URW++, based on Helvetica.
Nimbus Sans
It is a version using URW++ font source. The family supports Western Europe, East Europe, Turkish, Baltic, and Romanian languages.
The font names ending with ...
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Nimbus Roman No9 L
Nimbus Roman is a serif typeface created by URW Studio in 1982.
Nimbus Roman No. 9 L is a serif typeface created by URW Studio in 1987, and eventually released under the GPL and AFPL (as Type 1 font for Ghostscript) in 1996 and LPPL i ...
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Free software Unicode typefaces
There are Unicode typefaces which are open-source and designed to contain glyphs of all Unicode characters, or at least a broad selection of Unicode scripts. There are also numerous projects aimed at providing only a certain script, such as the A ...
References
External links
Nimbus Mono L - commercial versionNimbus Mono L on MyFontsGhostscript Git - URW fonts
(Type 1, OTF and TTF)
Ghostscript changelog
(includes changes in Ghostscript Nimbus fonts)
{{free and open-source typography
Monospaced typefaces
Open-source typefaces
Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1984
Slab serif typefaces