Ubuntu (typeface)

Short description: Open-source sans-serif typeface family

Ubuntu Font Family

Category| Sans-serif
Classification| Humanist sans-serif
Commissioned by| Canonical
Foundry| Dalton Maag
License| Ubuntu Font License
Variations| Ubuntu Monospace & Ubuntu Condensed
Website| https://design.ubuntu.com/font

Ubuntu is an OpenType-based font family, designed to be a modern, humanist-style typeface[1] by London-based type foundry Dalton Maag, with funding by Canonical Ltd. The font was under development for nearly nine months, with only a limited initial release through a beta program, until September 2010. It was then that it became the new default font of the Ubuntu operating system in Ubuntu 10.10.[2][3] Its designers include Vincent Connare, creator of the Comic Sans and Trebuchet MS fonts.[4]

The Ubuntu font family is licensed under the Ubuntu Font License.[5]

## Contents

* 1 History and features
* 2 Usage
* 3 Ubuntu Font Licence
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## History and features

The font was first introduced in October 2010 with the release of Ubuntu 10.10 in four versions: Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic in English. With the release of Ubuntu 11.04 in April 2011, additional fonts and expanded language coverage were introduced.[6][7] The final development is intended to include a total of thirteen fonts, consisting of:

* Ubuntu in Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic[6][7]
* Ubuntu Monospace in Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic[6][7]
* Ubuntu Light in Regular and Italic[6][7]
* Ubuntu Medium in Regular and Italic[6][7]
* Ubuntu Condensed in Regular only[6][7]

The monospace version, used in terminals, was initially planned to ship with Ubuntu 11.04. However, it was delayed and instead shipped with Ubuntu 11.10 as the default system monospace font.[8]

The font is fully Unicode compliant and contains Latin A and B extended character sets, Greek polytonic, and Cyrillic extended. In addition, it has become the first native operating system font to include the Indian rupee sign.[9] The font has been designed primarily for use on screen displays, and its spacing and kerning is optimized for body copy sizes.[6][10]

## Usage

The Ubuntu Font Family is the default font for the current and development releases of the Ubuntu operating system and is used for the Ubuntu project branding.[5]

The Ubuntu Font Family has been included in the Google Fonts directory, making it easily available for web typography,[11] and as of April 26, 2011, it is included for use in Google Docs.[12]

Ubuntu Monospace was prominently used in the 2014 video game Transistor.[13][14]

Ubuntu bold-italic is also used in the bitcoin logotype, alongside the bitcoin symbol.[15][16]

## Ubuntu Font Licence

Ubuntu Font LicensePublisher| Canonical Ltd.

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DFSG compatible| No[17]
FSF approved| No
OSI approved| No

The Ubuntu Font License is an "interim"[18] license designed for the Ubuntu Font Family, which has used the license since version 0.68.[5] The license is based on the SIL Open Font License.[19]

The Ubuntu Font License allows the fonts to be "used, studied, modified and redistributed freely" given that the license terms are met. The license is copyleft and all derivative works must be distributed under the same license. Documents that use the fonts are not required to be licensed under the Ubuntu Font License.[20]

Fedora and Debian have reviewed this license and converged on interpreting it as non-free due to incomplete or ambiguous use and modification permissions.[17][21]

## See also

* FF Dax, a similar spurless sans-serif font
* Ubuntu Titling font
* Open-source Unicode typefaces
* GPL font exception
* SIL Open Font License

## References

1. ↑ "Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Light: the new look of Ubuntu". https://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/308.
2. ↑ Humphrey, Benjamin (2010-09-28). "New Ubuntu font lands in Maverick for all users" (in en-GB). http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/09/new-ubuntu-font-lands-in-maverick-for-all-users.
3. ↑ Andrew. "The Ubuntu Font Family Is Now Available In Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat (Officially)" (in en-US). http://www.webupd8.org/2010/09/ubuntu-font-family-is-now-available-in.html.
4. ↑ Peters, Yves. "Ampersand Conference 2011 Focuses on Web Typography". http://fontfeed.com/archives/ampersand-conference-2011-focuses-on-web-typography/.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "ttf-ubuntu-font-family package in Ubuntu 10.10 "maverick" archiv... : Ubuntu Font Family" (in en). https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+announcement/6844/+index.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Ubuntu Font Family
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 Sneddon, Joey (August 2011). "Condensed Variant of Ubuntu Font Debuts". OMG Ubuntu. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/08/ubuntu-condensed-font/.
8. ↑ "Thanks a billion! Ubuntu on Google Webfonts" (in en). https://ubuntu.com/blog/one-billion.
9. ↑ "MaverickMeerkat/ReleaseNotes - Ubuntu Wiki". https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickMeerkat/ReleaseNotes?action=recall&rev=105.
10. ↑ "Ubuntu Font Family in Launchpad" (in en). https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+index.
11. ↑ Ubuntu Font Family – Google Web Fonts
12. ↑ "Bug #771443 Wishlist: Please add Ubuntu to Google Docs". bugs.launchpad.net. 2011-04-26. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+bug/771443.
13. ↑ "I'm working on a Transistor theme for Android, tell me what you think!". 24 May 2014. https://www.reddit.com/r/transistor/comments/26c3qh/im_working_on_a_transistor_theme_for_android_tell/. "Yea, there's 3 fonts used in the game. The terminals use Raleway and Ubuntu Mono, and the big OVC at the top uses Julius Sans One."
14. ↑ "For anyone curious, the UI typeface is called Raleway.". 28 May 2014. https://www.reddit.com/r/transistor/comments/26mmbj/for_anyone_curious_the_ui_typeface_is_called/. "the OVC text is written in Ubuntu Mono: … Use of Ubuntu Mono is a really cool detail, considering that in real life Open Voting Consortium terminals are running on Linux."
15. ↑ "How to create a "Bitcoin accepted here" button?". 17 September 2014. https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/201597/how-to-create-a-bitcoin-accepted-here-button. "The font is Ubuntu Bold Italic for the text."
16. ↑ "What font does Bitcoin use?". https://fontslogo.com/bitcoin-logo-font/. "The logo Bitcoin uses the Ubuntu Bold Italic font."
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 "Bug #769874 Naming restrictions in UFL considered non-free by Debian". bugs.launchpad.net. 2011-04-24. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-licence/+bug/769874.
18. ↑ Shuttleworth, Mark. "Something New and Beautiful: Ubuntu, distilled, in type". https://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/537. "So we came to the compromise of an interim license, which you can find at code.launchpad.net/+branch/ubuntu-font-licence bzr. While licence proliferation sucks, I’m optimistic we’ll converge in due course."
19. ↑ "Ubuntu font licence" (in en). https://ubuntu.com/legal/font-licence/differences.
20. ↑ "Ubuntu font licence" (in en). https://ubuntu.com/legal/font-licence.
21. ↑ "Bug 961642 - Review Request: ubuntu-font-family - The fonts used in Ubuntu Linux". bugzilla.redhat.com/. 2013-05-13. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961642#c4.

## External links

* Ubuntu Font Family main page
* Ubuntu Font Family on the Ubuntu Wiki
* Google Fonts

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Operating system,
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* Bitstream Charter
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* Droid Sans Mono
* Everson Mono
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* Liberation Mono
* Lucida Console
* Noto Sans Mono
* OCR-A
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* Andalé Mono
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* Fira Mono
* Hack
* IBM Plex Mono
* Input
* JetBrains Mono
* Overpass Mono
* PragmataPro
* Source Code Pro
* Ubuntu Mono

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* Consolas
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* Go Mono
* HyperFont
* Inconsolata
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* Luculent
* M+ FONTS
* Menlo
* Monaco
* ProFont
* PT Mono
* Roboto Mono
* San Francisco Mono

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* 3x3
* Fixed
* Fixedsys
* GNU Unifont
* Terminal

Serif|

* IBM Courier
* FreeMono
* Linux Libertine Mono
* Monospace
* Nimbus Mono L
* Prestige Elite
* Tex Gyre Cursor

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