font-liberation ☆

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Type: Cask | Latest Version: 2.1.5,7261482@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Fonts

Tags: fonts liberation open-source arial typography

Install: brew install --cask font-liberation

About:
Liberation Fonts are a set of open-source fonts designed to provide metric compatibility with Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New. They ensure that documents and web pages render predictably across different systems without requiring proprietary fonts. This package installs the fonts for system-wide use on macOS.

Key Features:

Metric compatibility with Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New
Open-source and freely licensed
Supports regular, bold, italic, and bold italic styles

Use Cases:

Viewing and editing documents that use standard metric-compatible fonts
Web development to ensure consistent cross-platform rendering
Replacing proprietary fonts in Linux and macOS environments

Alternatives:

font-roboto – Roboto is a modern sans-serif by Google, not metric-compatible with Arial
font-ubuntu – Ubuntu font is a distinctive sans-serif, not metric-compatible with Arial

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