CTAN web interface: Directory listing for /fonts/gnu-freefont

CTAN directory: /fonts/gnu-freefont

Packages in this directory:

Identifier	Caption
gnu-freefont	A Unicode font, with rather wide coverage.

Files

Name	Size^*	Date UTC	Notes
README	1 KiB	2012-May-03	Shown below
README.sig	198 bytes	2012-May-03
freefont-otf-20100919.zip	4229 KiB	2010-Sep-19
freefont-otf-20100919.zip.sig	198 bytes	2010-Sep-18
freefont-otf-20120503.tar.gz	4383 KiB	2012-May-03
freefont-otf-20120503.tar.gz.sig	198 bytes	2012-May-03
freefont-sfd-20100919.tar.gz	5612 KiB	2010-Sep-19
freefont-sfd-20100919.tar.gz.sig	198 bytes	2010-Sep-18
freefont-src-20120503.tar.gz	6353 KiB	2012-May-03
freefont-src-20120503.tar.gz.sig	198 bytes	2012-May-03
freefont-ttf-20100919.tar.gz	3265 KiB	2010-Sep-19
freefont-ttf-20100919.tar.gz.sig	198 bytes	2010-Sep-18
freefont-ttf-20120503.zip	5934 KiB	2012-May-03
freefont-ttf-20120503.zip.sig	198 bytes	2012-May-03
freefont-woff-20120503.zip	5496 KiB	2012-May-03
freefont-woff-20120503.zip.sig	198 bytes	2012-May-03

^*File sizes in kibibytes.

Contents of README

These are release versions of the GNU FreeFont fonts.

You probably want to get just one of them, the one with the most recent date,
that matches your needs.

As of the 2012 release,

The "otf" files are OpenType, for use in most modern operating systems.

The "ttf" files are TrueType, (strongly) preferred for Windows.

The "woff" files are Web Open Font Format files, for use as Web fonts.

The "src" and "sfd" files hold FontForge "Spline Font Database" files,
for use by font developers.

The ".sig" files are an accountability requirement of GNU upload policies. 
You probably don't need that.

(In releases prior to 2012, OpenType was preferred for Windows, and TrueType
for other systems.  The essential difference is that now the internal format 
of the letters in the OpenType files is cubic spline (PostScript) and of the
TrueType is quadratic spline (TrueType).)