- Luxi (fonts)
Luxi is a family of
typeface s originally designed for theX Window System byKris Holmes and Charles Bigelow from "Bigelow and Holmes Inc". Luxi are similar toLucida – their previousfont design, and Luxi Sans is also vaguely likeTrebuchet MS and Tahoma.Luxi fonts are commonly found on
free software operating system s, such asLinux . They are the default fonts inRed Hat 'sBluecurve theme.Released under a licence which permits free distribution but not modification, the Luxi fonts are not
free software . This led to their removal from the Debian package of XFree86.Typefaces
* Luxi Sans, a family of four
sans-serif fonts.
* Luxi Serif, a family of fourserif fonts.
* Luxi Mono, a family of fourmonospace fonts.History
* Only version 1.2 (created on 2001-10-12) is available.
* Inititially, they appeared as Type 1 fonts under the name Lucidux in XFree86 4.0 (released on 2000-03-08, added to XFree86 3.9.18Za a day earlier).
* They are available as TTF fonts since XFree86 4.2.0 (18 January 2002); they were added to the XFree86 source tree on the 12th of December 2001 (XFree86 4.1.99.2).External links
* [http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/CHANGELOG XFree86 Changelog]
* [http://marc.info/?l=xfree-fonts&m=100455135924204 Announcement of availability]
* [http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/CTAN/fonts/LuxiMono/LICENSE License]
* [http://osdir.com/ml/tex.live/2002-10/msg00109.html Discussion about inclusion in TeX Live]
* [http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2002/08/msg00134.html Discussion of attempts to change licensing]
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