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Nimbus Roman is a
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created by URW Studio in 1982. Nimbus Roman No. 9 L is a serif typeface created by URW Studio in 1987, and eventually released under the GPL and AFPL (as
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for Ghostscript) in 1996 and LPPL in 2009. 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). It is a standard typeface in many
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distributions.


See also

* Nimbus Mono L * Nimbus Sans L *
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References


External links


URW++ Homepage

URW++ Nimbus Roman
- commercial version
URW++ Nimbus Roman Global
- commercial version
URW++ Nimbus Roman No. 9
- 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 metricsGhostscript changelog
(includes changes in Nimbus fonts)
Guide to Pre-Installed Fonts in Linux, Mac, and Windows
(2007) {{Authority control Transitional serif typefaces Open-source typefaces Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1982