Libertine Open Fonts Project releases version 4.4.1

Our project is proud to announce version 4.4.1 of our open source font
/Linux Libertine/ and our new /Linux Biolinum/ font face.


The organic grotesque (sans serif) Linux Biolinum is a new member of our
font family. The vertical metric is identical with that of the Libertine
and the proportions fit perfectly together. Biolinum is intended for
emphasizing, small point sizes etc.


Background:

Since 2003 the Libertine Open Fonts Project works on a versatile Unicode
font family with an elegant, good-readable type face for daily and
professional use. It is designed to give you an alternative for fonts
like T*mes New Roman. We?e creating /free/ software and publish our
fonts under terms of the GPL and Open Font License (OFL).

It is our aim to support the many western languages and provide a wide
range of special characters. Our fonts cover the codepages of Western
Latin, Greek, Cyrillic (with their specific enhancements), Hebrew, IPA
and many more. Furthermore, typographical features such as ligatures,
small capitals, different number styles, scientific symbols, etc. are
implemented in our fonts. Linux Libertine thus contains more than 2000
characters.


Extract of the ChangeLog:


Changes to version 4.4.1 regular(-) & italic(/) & capitals (C) (20090321)
- First release of Linux Biolinum and its bold variant
- New paragraphs signs (uni00A7 and uni00B6)
- nicer guillemets uni00AB and 00BB as well as the single ones
- improved "copyright"-sign and "registered"-sign
- improved micro-sign
- further improvements in the small capitals set
- superior/inferior h, i, j, n, r has now new serifs, too
- new dotaccent.cap-glyph (slightly bigger than dotaccent) for capital glyphs 
- j slightly improved upper serif (now similar to i)
- improvements in row of IPA-signs (recent serifs etc)
- Asterisk has now f-height (a bit lower than before) and reduced bearings left and right
- 0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 slight improvements
- tilde, slight improvements
- cedilla improved (now somewhat thicker)
- ae improved
- C, c, e, t new finely bulged runner
- brought some ligatures up to recent baseglyph form
- florin improved
- dansk ring accent improved -> aring
- comma accent improved, in characters with this accent the latter have now the same vertical
position
- roman numbers improved
- and many smaller things I forgot to note
- as well as all that we marked as "solved" in the bug tracker


We provide a short XeTex tutorial which will enable all typography
gourmets to make use of Libertine? comprehensive OpenType-features:
http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/Libertine-XeTex-EN.pdf


Please visit our homepage for further information:

http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net
<http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/>


Thanks!


Philipp H. Poll


Libertine Open Fonts Projekt - http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net
<http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/>




*Appendix*


Press:


- Bruce Byfield (2006): /?//Linux Libertine Open Fonts offers free Times
Roman alternative?/, http://www.linux.com/articles/56565

- Antje Dohmann / PAGE (2009): ?Friedliche Koexistenz?

- Forrest Cook / LWN (2008):* */?The Linux Libertine Open Fonts
Project?, /http://lwn.net/Articles/263610/

- Hans-Joachim Baader / Pro-Linux (2008): /?Libertine Open Fonts in
Version 4.1.8?,/* *http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2008/13422.html
<http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2008/12157.html>

*- *Meerbusch (2007): /?//Bahn frei für das große ?Eszett??/,
http://rhein-zeitung.de/on/07/10/05/service/computer/tipp...


Wikipedia:

English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine

Deutsch:
<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine>http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine

Italiano: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine

French: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine

Russian: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine

Dutch: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine