Luxi fonts
Humanist sans-serif typeface
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Luxi is a family of typefaces originally designed for the X Window System by Kris Holmes and Charles Bigelow from Bigelow & Holmes Inc. The Luxi typefaces are similar to Lucida – their previous font design.
FoundryBigelow & Holmes
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| Category | Sans-serif |
|---|---|
| Classification | Humanist |
| Designers | Kris Holmes and Charles Bigelow |
| Foundry | Bigelow & Holmes |
| Date released | 2001 |
Luxi fonts were once commonly distributed with free software operating systems, such as Linux. They were featured as the default fonts for Red Hat's Bluecurve theme. Released under a licence which permits free distribution but not modification, the Luxi fonts are not free software.[1] This led to their removal from Debian package of XFree86 as well as Fedora.[2][3]
Typefaces
- Luxi Sans, a family of four sans-serif fonts.
- Luxi Serif, a family of four serif fonts.
- Luxi Mono, a family of four monospace 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 12 December 2001 (XFree86 4.1.99.2).