Nimbus Roman No9 L

Nimbus Roman

Category	Serif
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 alternatives to 35 basic PostScript fonts (which include Times).^[10][11]

It is a standard typeface in many GNU/Linux distributions.^[12][13] It was used as default font in OpenOffice.org Writer in some GNU/Linux distributions (e.g. Ubuntu - up to version 8.10; since Ubuntu 9.04 the default font was changed to Liberation Serif).

See also

• Nimbus Mono L
• Nimbus Sans L
• Free software Unicode typefaces

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Nimbus Roman". URW++. http://www.urwpp.de/cgi-bin1/dalcgi/source/fontliste0.htd?sprache=english&auswahl=-1&bInfoSta=$false&bInfoDes=$true&fontnummer=n020003d&o2pb-id=wd3bbc0077da97a92c9987dbeae12bccd5a861fbdec. Retrieved 2010-05-06. 
2. ^ "Nimbus Roman No. 9 L". URW++. http://www.urwpp.de/cgi-bin1/dalcgi/source/fontliste0.htd?sprache=english&auswahl=-1&fontnummer=n021003l&ghpb-id=wd98918cb879ba25e39987dbeae12bccd5a861fbdec. Retrieved 2010-05-06. 
3. ^ Finally! Good-quality free (GPL) basic-35 PostScript Type 1 fonts., archived from the original on 2002-10-23, http://web.archive.org/web/20021023155414/http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/378/1996/5/0/2064811/, retrieved 2010-05-06 
4. ^ (TXT) Finally! Good-quality free (GPL) basic-35 PostScript Type 1 fonts., http://www.tug.org/fonts/deutsch-urw.txt, retrieved 2010-05-06 
5. ^ "Fonts and TeX". 2009-12-19. http://www.tug.org/fonts/. Retrieved 2010-05-06. 
6. ^ (PDF) Five years after: Report on international TEX font projects, 2007, http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb29-1/tb91ludwichowski-fonts.pdf, retrieved 2010-05-06 
7. ^ URW++ making original 35 fonts available under LPPL, http://www.tug.org/fonts/lppl-urw.txt, retrieved 2010-05-06 
8. ^ (TAR.GZ) ghostscript-fonts-std-4.0.tar.gz - GhostScript 4.0 standard fonts - AFPL license, 1996-06-28, http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/aladdin/fonts/ghostscript-fonts-std-4.0.tar.gz, retrieved 2010-05-06 
9. ^ (TAR.GZ) ghostscript-fonts-std-6.0.tar.gz - GhostScript 6.0 standard fonts - GPL license, 1999-12-22, http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/aladdin/fonts/ghostscript-fonts-std-6.0.tar.gz, retrieved 2010-05-06 
10. ^ "Fonts and font facilities supplied with Ghostscript". http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/current/Fonts.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-21. 
11. ^ "Linux fonts (mostly X11)". 2009-08-15. http://www.sabi.co.uk/Notes/linuxFonts.html. Retrieved 2010-04-21. 
12. ^ "Ghostscript SVN - URW fonts". http://code.google.com/p/ghostscript/source/browse/#svn/trunk/urw-fonts. Retrieved 2010-04-21. 
13. ^ "Debian package - gsfonts". http://packages.debian.org/sid/gsfonts. Retrieved 2010-04-21. 

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)