'It's always nagged at us that we didn't have a set of high-quality, open-source fonts that were the metric equivalent to Microsoft fonts,' Webbink said. The idea behind the project is to produce a set of fonts that are almost identical to Microsoft fonts yet fall under the open-source Gnu Public License, said Red Hat legal counsel Mark Webbink. But what if you want to run text within your own program, on your own non-Microsoft platform? Now, Red Hat, which offers a commercial version of the Linux operating system, has contracted with a commercial font developer, Ascender, to create an open-source set of fonts, including a replacement for Times New Roman and other Microsoft fonts. Most of us use Microsoft Office, so font licensing isn't really an issue. Microsoft also owns Arial and Courier New, both also used in Microsoft Office. The Times New Roman font, for example, a variant of Times Roman tweaked for computer viewing, is owned by Microsoft. Easy on the eyes, yes? And just as typography has its underground sense of aesthetics, so, too, does it have its own world of licensing. For instance, the font you're reading now is Miller Text Roman. ![]() A font is a complete set of characters rendered in a certain style, or typeface. ![]() As anyone who has recently seen the documentary '/Helvetica/' can attest, designers who work with fonts take them seriously.
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