Nimbus Roman No. 9 L

Nimbus Roman
Category	Serif
Classification	Transitional
Designer(s)	URW Studio; (Stanley Morison, Victor Lardent); GPL published also by Valek Fillipov
Foundry	URW++
Date released	1982 (1931)
Design based on	Times New Roman
Variations	URW Heisei Mincho
Website	www.urwpp.de

Nimbus Roman is a serif typeface created by URW Studio in 1982.^[1]

Nimbus Roman No. 9 L is a serif typeface created by URW Studio in 1987,^[2] and eventually released under the GPL and AFPL (as Type 1 font for Ghostscript) in 1996^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] and LPPL in 2009.^[7]^[8]^[9] It features Normal, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic weights, and is one of several freely licensed fonts offered by URW++.

Although the characters are not exactly the same, Nimbus Roman No. 9 L has metrics almost identical to Times New Roman and Times Roman. It is one of the Ghostscript fonts, a free alternative to 35 basic PostScript fonts (which include Times).^[10]^[11]

It is a standard typeface in many Linux distributions.^[12]^[13]

References[edit]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Nimbus Roman". URW++. Archived from the original on 2012-12-18. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
^ "Nimbus Roman No. 9 L". URW++. Retrieved 2010-05-06.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ 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
^ URW++ making original 35 fonts available under LPPL, retrieved 2010-05-06
^ ghostscript-fonts-std-4.0.tar.gz - GhostScript 4.0 standard fonts - AFPL license, 1996-06-28, archived from the original (TAR.GZ) on 2011-04-24, retrieved 2010-05-06
^ ghostscript-fonts-std-6.0.tar.gz - GhostScript 6.0 standard fonts - GPL license, 1999-12-22, archived from the original (TAR.GZ) on 2011-04-24, 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.
^ "Debian package - gsfonts". Retrieved 2010-04-21.

External links[edit]

URW++ Homepage Archived 2015-08-10 at the Wayback Machine
URW++ Nimbus Roman - commercial version
URW++ Nimbus Roman Global Archived 2018-05-30 at the Wayback Machine - commercial version
URW++ Nimbus Roman No. 9 Archived 2018-05-30 at the Wayback Machine - commercial version
URW++ Nimbus Roman No. 9 L - commercial version
Ghostscript Git - URW fonts (Type 1, OTF and TTF fonts)
Nimbus Roman No. 9 L-Regular - font metrics
Ghostscript changelog (includes changes in Nimbus fonts)
Fonts and font facilities supplied with Ghostscript
Guide to Pre-Installed Fonts in Linux, Mac, and Windows (2007)

[roman1982-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Nimbus Roman". URW++. Archived from the original on 2012-12-18. Retrieved 2010-05-06.

[2] "Nimbus Roman No. 9 L". URW++. Retrieved 2010-05-06.^{[permanent dead link]}

[3] Finally! Good-quality free (GPL) basic-35 PostScript Type 1 fonts., archived from the original on 2002-10-23, retrieved 2010-05-06

[4] Finally! Good-quality free (GPL) basic-35 PostScript Type 1 fonts. (TXT), retrieved 2010-05-06

[5] "Fonts and TeX". 2009-12-19. Retrieved 2010-05-06.

[6] Five years after: Report on international TEX font projects (PDF), 2007, retrieved 2010-05-06

[7] URW++ making original 35 fonts available under LPPL, retrieved 2010-05-06

[8] ghostscript-fonts-std-4.0.tar.gz - GhostScript 4.0 standard fonts - AFPL license, 1996-06-28, archived from the original (TAR.GZ) on 2011-04-24, retrieved 2010-05-06

[9] ghostscript-fonts-std-6.0.tar.gz - GhostScript 6.0 standard fonts - GPL license, 1999-12-22, archived from the original (TAR.GZ) on 2011-04-24, retrieved 2010-05-06

[10] "Fonts and font facilities supplied with Ghostscript". Retrieved 2010-04-21.

[11] "Linux fonts (mostly X11)". 2009-08-15. Retrieved 2010-04-21.

[12] "Ghostscript SVN - URW fonts". Retrieved 2010-04-21.

[13] "Debian package - gsfonts". Retrieved 2010-04-21.

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