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The Ubuntu Font Family are a set of matching new libre/open fonts initially developed during 2010-2011. The font was released under a libre-licence and is now packaged in Ubuntu 10.10 and later versions. Work is on-going to continue to improve the font.

• http://launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family (project)

• http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+bugs

History

For information about the development of the font, and it's history within the project, see History.

Testing

Getting the font

Note, fonts installed via the PPA are not intended to be used on production systems as they represent unfinished and preview versions of the font. You are highly encourage to remove the ppa and associated fonts upon conclusion of your testing.

The font can be installed by adding the following ppa.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-font-beta-testing/0.83+arabic-beta-test
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Removing the font

You can use the ppa-purge tool to remove the font at the end of testing.

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntu-font-beta-testing/0.83+arabic-beta-test

Testing on Ubuntu

pango-view --font="Ubuntu 48" --markup \
--text='<span fallback="false"> test text here</span>'

pango-view --font="UbuntuPrerelease0910 48" --markup \
--text='<span fallback="false"> test text here</span>'

U+EFFD ('') = version number
U+F000 '' = hinting (88 = autohinting, font size = manual hinting)

After copying font to ~/.fonts:
fc-cache -fv

Testing in a browser

Enter this in the URL field:

data:text/html;charset=UTF-8,<p style="font-family:Ubuntu;font-size:70;"> test text here</p>

Reporting a bug

When reporting a bug, please include a screenshot containing the above two characters (EFFD F000) as well as the problem you want to show. In most applications you can press ctrl+shift+U before typing the code of the character followed by a space, for example ctrl+shift+u EFFD space.