New Ubuntu font lands in Maverick for all users

By Benjamin Humphrey, Published September 28, 2010

The new Ubuntu font that Canonical commissioned typeface designers Dalton Maag to develop for the Ubuntu operating system has landed in Ubuntu 10.10 for all users.

The font, which has been under development for almost 9 months, was only previously accessible through a limited beta program which saw Ubuntu members and Canonical employees gain access to the font for exclusive testing.

Whether the font would land in Maverick Meerkat in time for final release come October 10th came under doubt earlier this month when a discussion arose on a bug report, with Mark Shuttleworth suggesting to defer the font usage till Ubuntu 11.04, next year.

Only a few days later and Bruno Maag confirmed that the font would indead land in time for Ubuntu 10.10′s release this October.

€œNo, there will be no font delay as far as I know. The core fonts are still on track to be released with Maverick, containing Latin A+B Ext, Greek Polytonic and Cyrillic Extended.€

The package in Maverick Meerkat is called ttf-ubuntu-font-family and should be installed by default after an update today. The package description reads:

The Ubuntu Font Family are a set of matching new libre/open fonts in development during 2010–2011. The development is being funded by Canonical Ltd on behalf the wider Free Software community and the Ubuntu project. The technical font design work and implementation is being undertaken by Dalton Maag.

Both the final font Truetype/OpenType files and the design files used to produce the font family are distributed under an open licence and you are expressly encouraged to experiment, modify, share and improve.

A new website, font.ubuntu.com, has been created to support the font. It contains links to relevant areas, such as documentation, testing, bug reporting and the Canonical design blog. The site also lists current and future languages and variations, and alludes to future types, evidently the Ubuntu font is going to be fleshed out into an entire family.

Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold-Italic, Light, Medium, Monospace, Condensed€¦

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  • http://twitter.com/om26er omer akram

    first

  • JohnB

    Very nice!

  • Serial_frilla

    This font is VERY good, I really like it !!.

    • http://envygeeks.com Jordon Bedwell

      This is going to be really nice. With Ubuntu throwing an open license on the font if we mix this with the nice fonts that Android brought we instantly get the ability to self serve @font-face as much as want :D I would not hesitate to use this font on my site as it’s actually really nice.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/C6S22ANL35LHAH27EX43XFQKTQ Klau3

    Will we see the font also as WOFF (Web Open Font Format) on this page?

    • http://openid-provider.appspot.com/mark_c@markecurtis.com Merk

      Expanding on that, it would be nice if the font were hosted on that site in ttf, eot, woff and svg so not only would all browsers see that page using @font-face in the css, but maybe other entirely different websites could use those same font files for their own websites.

    • http://openid-provider.appspot.com/mark_c@markecurtis.com Merk

      Expanding on that, it would be nice if the font were hosted on that site in ttf, eot, woff and svg so not only would all browsers see that page using @font-face in the css, but maybe other entirely different websites could use those same font files for their own websites.

  • http://drice.org DRice

    The font is still called UbuntuBeta? Or is it the final version?

    • Mohan

      On my computer it’s called Ubuntu

      • http://drice.org DRice

        here it’s still UbuntuBeta (i had the beta-version installed from a ppa).

      • http://drice.org DRice

        here it’s still UbuntuBeta (i had the beta-version installed from a ppa).

      • http://drice.org DRice

        okay. forgot to install the new package.

    • That Dude

      UbuntuBeta was renamed in Ubuntu after the latest updates.

  • Anonymous

    It’s nice but is there no monospace version yet?

    • http://drice.org DRice

      not yet.

  • marcin

    This will be default font in kubuntu to?

  • amano

    It is installed by default now, but there is still no indication that this would end up as the default desktop font. Or am I wrong?

    Thus no big deal for now. Ubuntu ships another font among the others for now. Until it is made the default desktop font, there is nothing to see though…

    • Dylan C

      “Bruno Maag confirmed that the font would indead land in time for Ubuntu 10.10′s release this October.”

      I get the impression it will be the default font in Ubuntu 10.10.

  • Anonymous

    just installed the font on Lucid it’s very smooth, and the bold is beautiful for titles
    great job

  • Claudio

    Good news!

  • Mohan

    Cool, going to run an update now

  • Mohan

    Cool, going to run an update now

  • Mohan

    Cool, going to run an update now

  • taccoboss

    just updated and the new font is called simply “ubuntu”. In my opinion is very good…..grub2 has changed too!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BKAIQEWX3EQQCYSUG2XS6XFORI Kyle

    It wasn’t installed by default for me so I installed it myself, it looks gorgeous.

  • http://twitter.com/milos_matic MiloÅ¡ Matić

    Excellent!

  • http://blastfromthepast.se/ Tommy Brunn

    I don’t like it as an application font (even if it’s loads better than Sans), but I think it looks great as a window decoration font. Using it now, in fact.

  • Anonymous

    How do you get it for 10.04?

    • Adam

      Click the link “package description” in the article and download the .deb.

      • Anonymous

        Cheers Adam. The font looks really good.

    • Adam

      Click the link “package description” in the article and download the .deb.

  • Anonymous

    Will this become available to users of 10.04 also?

    • Coppertop

      I’ve installed it in Lucid with no problems from the Maverick deb.

      It looks fantastic. I’ve previously used Liberation fonts on my desktop and they were nice, but they had no real identity. This one has tons of it, which is great!

    • Coppertop

      I’ve installed it in Lucid with no problems from the Maverick deb.

      It looks fantastic. I’ve previously used Liberation fonts on my desktop and they were nice, but they had no real identity. This one has tons of it, which is great!

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  • http://twitter.com/piratelv Levi

    Reading the comments here i would like to see it for myself. I however doubt i will give much feed back. There I don’t want to join the font testing group on lauchpad.

    My question. Is there another way to get the font?

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  • http://www.ruben-grimm.de Ruben Grimm

    I really like the font in it’s standard version, but the bold version remembers me of Comic Sans. That should be reworked I think…

    • http://openid-provider.appspot.com/mark.myemailaddress redradish

      Comic Sans, really? Maybe you got the wrong font, cuz even at size 6pt they look *extremely* different (which is why this font looks so good ;-) ) Yeah, the regular is quite nice though :D

  • erick

    is this available in lucid?

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/ZCKHVTP4QZOFR3PR2AB6FE7VJ4 Dexter

    I can’t rally see any changes to the font. I must be Blind. O_O

  • http://twitter.com/jspaleta Jef Spaleta

    Just to clarify…

    Canonical created an entirely new font license instead of using an existing open license?

    -jef

    • http://www.obfuscatepenguin.net/ Marc

      The Ubuntu Font License is based on the SIL Open Font License. The FAQ basically points out the differences.
      1) UFL fonts can be sold separately.
      2) Whereas a modified OFL font must always use a different name, the UFL is more fine grained. Small modifications must retain the name as ” derivative “, while substantial modifications must avoid the original name completely, as with the OFL.

      In some ways this can be seen as an advantage, as it recognises a modification’s heritage. The big problem is with serial modifications, which must each use the same licence and adhere to the ‘derivative’ naming pattern. Over time this will result in names like “Ubuntu derivative Sijambo derivative Tanganyika derivative Hippolyta”. Even though Hippolyta might be substantially different from the original Ubuntu, it won’t be able to allowed to use a stand-alone name.

      • http://www.obfuscatepenguin.net/ Marc

        The comment back-end messed that up a bit. It appears it’s confused by angle brackets. Disqus, you’ve got some explaining to do.

  • http://twitter.com/WorLord GonzO

    Really sweet font.

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  • daas88

    Condensed? cool I love condensed fonts

  • http://notatoad.com notatoad

    i was not impressed by the initial screenshots of this, but i installed it today and it makes an really excellent interface font. i’m still not sold on using it as a document font, but for what it is (a font to further distinguish ubuntu from its competitors) it is excellent. great job, guys.

  • Colin

    how come the menus don’t use it? would it be overkill?

  • Anonymous

    I love the font… Cheers Ubuntu… :)

  • Raymond

    Installed it last night and did my 3D blended background, looks sweet!

  • Anonymous

    it doesnt work too well size 9 bold though…

  • http://www.saktidwicahyono.name Sakti Dwi Cahyono

    awesome, now ubuntu already has its own font

  • sonay

    I believe it works better with ubuntu’s font patches, as it doesn’t look good enough in arch

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  • Raul Sousa

    I don’t understand… I’ve downloaded the font and I can’t find light family, only Normal, Bold, Bold Italic and Italic. \:

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    OMG!!! Surprise Buttsex!!!!!

 
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