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Liberation Fonts
=================
The Liberation Fonts is font collection which aims to provide document
layout compatibility as usage of Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New.
Requirements
=================
* [fontforge](http://fontforge.sourceforge.net)
* [python fonttools](https://pypi.org/project/fonttools/)
Install
============
1. Get sources
The latest sources are available via github by checking out the repo:
$ git clone https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts
Or downloading the tar.gz file via [github](https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts/tags).
eg. 2.00.5 can be retrieved via:
$ wget https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts/files/2926169/liberation-fonts-2.00.5.tar.gz
You can extract the files using the following command where VERSION=2.00.4:
$ tar zxvf liberation-fonts-[VERSION].tar.gz
2. Build from the source
$ cd liberation-fonts or $ cd liberation-fonts-[VERSION]
$ make
The binary font files will be available in 'liberation-fonts-ttf-[VERSION]' directory.
3. Install to system
Fedora Users :
One can manually install the fonts by copying the TTFs to `~/.fonts` for user wide usage,
and/or to `/usr/share/fonts/liberation` for system-wide availability.
Then, run `fc-cache` to let that cached.
Other distributions :
please check out corresponding documentation.
Usage
==========
Simply select preferred liberation font in applications and start using.
License
============
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License,
Version 1.1.
Please read file "LICENSE" for details.
For Maintainers
====================
Before packaging a new release based on a new source tarball, you have to
update the version suffix in the Makefile:
VER = [VERSION]
Make sure that the defined version corresponds to the font software metadata
which you can check with ftinfo/otfinfo or fontforge itself. It is highly
recommended that file 'ChangeLog' is updated to reflect changes.
Create a tarball with the following command:
$ make dist
The new versioned tarball will be available in the dist/ folder as
`liberation-fonts-[NEW_VERSION].tar.gz.`
Credits
============
Please read file "AUTHORS" for list of contributors.
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