Nimbus Sans
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| Category | Sans-serif |
|---|---|
| Classification | Neo-grotesque |
| Designer(s) | URW Studio |
| Foundry | URW++ |
| Date released | 1999 |
| Design based on | Helvetica |
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, Romanian languages.
Some of the fonts have history predating Helvetica's first release. For example, Nimbus Sans bold condensed, Nimbus Sans bold condensed (D) were dated 1940; Nimbus Sans Black Condensed, Nimbus Sans Black Condensed (D) were dated 1946.
The font names ending with (D) have slightly lighter font weights and tighter spacing.
| Weight | condensed | medium | extended |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black | roman | roman, italic | roman |
| Bold | roman | roman, italic | roman |
| Regular | roman | roman, italic | roman |
| Light | - | roman, italic | roman |
| (D) fonts | |||
| Weight | condensed | medium | extended |
| Black | roman, italic | roman, italic | roman, outline |
| Bold | roman, italic | roman, italic, outline | roman |
| Regular | roman, italic | roman, italic | roman |
| Light | roman, italic | roman, italic | roman |
| Ultra Light | - | roman | - |
Nimbus Sans Poster
It is a version of Nimbus Sans with even tighter spacing than the Nimbus Sans (D) fonts. Other changes include alternate designs for currency symbols.
| Weight | condensed | medium |
|---|---|---|
| Black | roman, italic | roman, italic |
| Bold | roman, italic | roman, italic |
| Regular | roman, italic | roman, italic |
| Light | roman, italic | roman, italic |
| Ultra Light | - | roman |
Nimbus Sans Diagonal
It is a version with more right lean than Nimbus Sans italic fonts. The family currently only includes 1 font, in Black weight in medium width.
Nimbus Sans Mono
It is a monospaced variant of Nimbus Sans. The family currently only includes 1 font, in Regular weight in medium width.
Nimbus Sans Global
It is a family supporting Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, CJK ideographic, Japanese kanam, Korean Hangul syllables, Thai characters. The family includes 5 fonts in 1 (medium) width, with 4 proportional an 1 monospaced fonts. The proportional fonts are in 4 weights (bold, medium, regular, light), while the monospace font is in medium weight.
Nimbus Sans L
Nimbus Sans L is a version of Nimbus Sans using Adobe font sources. It was designed in 1987. The family includes 17 fonts in 5 weights and 2 widths, with Nimbus Sans L Extra Black only available in condensed roman format.
A subset of Nimbus Sans L, which includes regular and bold weight fonts in all widths and styles, were released under the GPL and AFPL in Type 1 format in 1996[1][2][3][4][5][6] and LPPL in 2009,[7] and is one of several freely licensed fonts offered by URW++.
Although the characters are not exactly the same, Nimbus Sans L has metrics almost identical to Helvetica and Arial. Nimbus Sans L is one of the Ghostscript fonts, a set of free alternatives to the 35 basic PostScript fonts (which include Helvetica).[8][9][10][11]
It is a standard typeface in many GNU/Linux distributions.[12] It was used as default font in OpenOffice.org Calc and Impress in some GNU/Linux distributions (e.g. Ubuntu - up to version 8.10; since Ubuntu 9.04 the default font was changed to Liberation Sans).
Ghostscript version
It was extended to include Cyrillic support by Valek Filippov.
Nimbus Sans Novus
It is a version Linotype's Stempel Studio source, based on Neue Helvetica, but without the extended fonts.
The font names ending with (D) have tighter letter spacing.
| Weight | condensed | medium | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ultra | roman, italic | - | |
| Black | roman, italic | roman, italic | |
| Heavy | roman, italic | roman, italic | |
| Bold | roman, italic | roman, italic, outline | |
| Semi Bold | roman, italic | roman, italic | |
| Medium | roman, italic | roman, italic | |
| Regular | roman, italic | roman, italic | |
| Light | roman, italic | roman, italic | |
| Ultra Light | roman, italic | roman, italic | |
| (D) fonts | |||
| Weight | condensed | medium | |
| Ultra | roman | - | |
| Black | roman | roman, outline | |
| Heavy | roman | roman | |
| Bold | roman | roman | |
| Semi Bold | roman | roman | |
| Medium | roman | roman | |
| Regular | roman | roman | |
| Light | roman | roman | |
| Ultra Light | roman | roman | |
See also
References
- ↑ Finally! Good-quality free (GPL) basic-35 PostScript Type 1 fonts., archived from the original on 2002-10-23, retrieved 2010-05-06
- ↑ Finally! Good-quality free (GPL) basic-35 PostScript Type 1 fonts. (TXT), retrieved 2010-05-06
- ↑ "Fonts and TeX". 2009-12-19. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
- ↑ Five years after: Report on international TEX font projects (PDF), 2007, retrieved 2010-05-06
- ↑ ghostscript-fonts-std-4.0.tar.gz - GhostScript 4.0 standard fonts - AFPL license (TAR.GZ), 1996-06-28, retrieved 2010-05-06
- ↑ ghostscript-fonts-std-6.0.tar.gz - GhostScript 6.0 standard fonts - GPL license (TAR.GZ), 1999-12-22, retrieved 2010-05-06
- ↑ URW++ making original 35 fonts available under LPPL, retrieved 2010-05-06
- ↑ "Fonts and font facilities supplied with Ghostscript". Retrieved 2010-04-21.
- ↑ "Linux fonts (mostly X11)". 2009-08-15. Retrieved 2010-04-21.
- ↑ "Ghostscript SVN - URW fonts". Retrieved 2010-04-21.
- ↑ "URW font ttf conversions". Ghostscript. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
- ↑ "Debian package - gsfonts". Retrieved 2010-04-21.
External links
Nimbus Sans
- URW pages:
Nimbus Sans Family, Nimbus Sans Global
Nimbus Sans L
- URW pages: Nimbus Sans L
- Ghostscript SVN - URW fonts (Type 1 fonts)
- Nimbus Sans L - Regular - font metrics
- Ghostscript changelog (includes changes in Ghostscript Nimbus fonts)
- Fonts and font facilities supplied with Ghostscript (Type 1)
Nimbus Sans Novus
- URW pages: Nimbus Sans Novus