Liberation Sans Font

Liberation Sans family consisting of 5 fonts
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Author's note

Liberation Sans by Ascender is a free sans-serif font with a plainspoken, modern office-text feel. The letters look familiar rather than mannered: open, rounded lowercase forms, even strokes, and a clean upright rhythm that keeps the tone neutral without turning cold.

That makes this free font a natural choice for interface labels, document templates, presentation slides, annual reports, and website navigation, where you want typography to stay calm and out of the way. It also works for short headlines and title cards when you need something direct, because the shapes feel everyday and unforced instead of branded or ornamental.

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BasicForeignSans serifGreekCyrillic

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
Digitized data © 2007 Ascender Corporation. All rights reserved.
Font family
Liberation Sans
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Ascender - Liberation Sans
Full font name
Liberation Sans
Name table version
Version 1.00
Postscript font name
LiberationSans
Trademark notice
Liberation is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc. registered in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and certain other jurisdictions.
Manufacturer name
Ascender Corporation
Designer
Steve Matteson

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 2.0 and onwards semantics, Unicode BMP only.
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created2005-08-07
Revision1
Glyph count668
Units per Em2048
Embedding rightsEmbedding for editing allowed
Family classSans serif
WeightSemi-light
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs
Pattern natureRegular
PitchNot monospaced
Complete pack contains 5 font weights listed below:
LiberationSans-Regular.ttf
LiberationSans-Bold.ttf
LiberationSans-BoldItalic.ttf
LiberationSans-Italic.ttf
LiberationSans-Regular.ttf
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