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Ubuntu is an OpenType-based font family, designed to be a modern, humanist-style typeface〔(Light: the new look of Ubuntu )〕 by London-based type foundry Dalton Maag, with funding by Canonical Ltd. The font was under development for nearly nine months, with only a limited initial release through a beta program, until September 2010. It was then that it became the new default font of the Ubuntu operating system in Ubuntu 10.10.〔(New Ubuntu font lands in Maverick for all users )〕〔(The Ubuntu Font Family Is Now Available In Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat (Officially) )〕 Its designers include Vincent Connare, creator of the classic font Comic Sans. The Ubuntu font family is licensed under the Ubuntu Font Licence.〔(ttf-ubuntu-font-family package in Ubuntu 10.10 "maverick" archives )〕 == History and features == The font was first introduced in October 2010 with the release of Ubuntu 10.10 in four versions Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic in English. With the release of Ubuntu 11.04 in April, 2011 additional fonts and expanded language coverage were introduced.〔(Ubuntu Font Family )〕 The final development is intended to include a total of thirteen fonts consisting of: *Ubuntu in Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic〔〔 *Ubuntu Monospace in Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic〔〔 *Ubuntu Light in Regular, Italic〔〔 *Ubuntu Medium in Regular, Italic〔〔 *Ubuntu Condensed in Regular only〔〔 The monospace version, used in terminals, was initially planned to ship with Ubuntu 11.04. However it was delayed and instead shipped with Ubuntu 11.10 as the default system monospace font.〔Sladen, Paul. (Thanks a billion! Ubuntu on Google Webfonts ). Canonical Design blog. Retrieved 2011-10-18.〕 The font is fully Unicode compliant and contains Latin A and B extended character sets, Greek polytonic, and Cyrillic extended. In addition, it has become the first native operating system font to include the Indian rupee sign.〔(MaverickMeerkat ReleaseNotes )〕 The font has been designed primarily for use on screen displays, and its spacing and kerning is optimised for body copy sizes.〔〔(Launchpad – Ubuntu Font Family )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ubuntu (typeface)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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