Liberation and Droid, Two Free Font Families
I’ve been rather impressed two new, free font families, Liberation (download) and Droid (unfortunately you have to go out of your way to extract the Droid family from a developer’s archive - except Droid Sans Mono which is here). Liberation is a font family developed by Steve Matteson of Ascender Corp for Red Hat to use as a “free as in speech” alternative to the usual Times and Helvetica / Arial fonts. Droid, however, is a font family also developed by Ascender Corp, but is only “free as in beer” and is included with the Google Android developer’s kit.
(Bonus: There’s also the old classic Bitstream Vera font family too. It’s looking a bit long in the tooth to me, but is still pretty useful if you want something that’s “free as in speech.”)
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