The Fonts

All of the Ghostscript text font families have become “gyrefied” as the result of the project. “Gyrefication”, also called “LM-ization”, was first applied to the Computer Modern Fonts and their various generalizations with the result known as the Latin Modern (LM) Fonts.

Here we list only those TeX Gyre fonts which have already been given new names (all of them are already released): Adventor, Bonum, Chorus, Cursor, Heros, Pagella, Schola, Termes (download the whole collection).

Important notes:

1. Before installing a TeX Gyre font, all files from the corresponding Quasi font — if present — should be deleted (including LaTeX support) lest conflicts ensue (consult the relevant documentation).
2. The numbers of glyphs in the font families are given for the release 1.102 and above.

Adventor

The TeX Gyre Adventor (download) family of sansserif fonts is based on the URW Gothic L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original font, ITC Avant Garde Gothic was designed by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase in 1970. The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats.

Bonum

The TeX Gyre Bonum (download) family of serif fonts is based on the URW Bookman L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original font was designed by Alexander Phemister in 1860 and named Bookman (or Bookman Old Style). The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please note that with the release of this family the QuasiBookman fonts became obsolete.

Chorus

The TeX Gyre Chorus (download) is a font based on the URW Chancery L Medium Italic font distributed with Ghostscript. The original, ITC Zapf Chancery, was designed in 1979 by Hermann Zapf who was inspired by handwritten letterforms of the Italian Renaissance (currently, other variants of this typeface are available). Compared to URW Chancery L Medium Italic, TeX Gyre Chorus is heavily extended and contains more than 900 glyphs. Unlike for other fonts from the TeX Gyre collection, Greek letters are missing and so are small caps (using capital forms of chancery characters for typesetting whole words should be forbidden by law). The font is available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please note that with the release of TeX Gyre Chorus the QuasiChancery font became obsolete.

Cursor

The TeX Gyre Cursor (download) family of monospaced serif fonts is based on the URW Nimbus Mono L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original font, Courier, was designed by Howard G. (Bud) Kettler in 1955 for the IBM Corporation. The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please note that with the release of this family the QuasiCourier fonts became obsolete.

Heros

The TeX Gyre Heros (download) family of sansserif fonts is based on the URW Nimbus Sans L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original font, Helvetica, was designed in 1957 by Max Miedinger in cooperation with Eduard Hoffman at the Haas type foundry. The constituent 8 faces (4 standard and 4 condensed) contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please note that with the release of this family the QuasiSwiss fonts became obsolete.

Pagella

The TeX Gyre Pagella (download) family of serif fonts is based on the URW Palladio L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original font, Palatino, was designed by Hermann Zapf in the 1940's for the Stempel type foundry. The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please note that with the release of this family the QuasiPalatino fonts became obsolete.

Schola

The TeX Gyre Schola (download) family of serif fonts is based on the URW Century Schoolbook L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original was designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1919, for the American Type Founders. The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats.

Termes

The TeX Gyre Termes (download) family of serif fonts is based on the Nimbus Roman No9 L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original font, Times, was designed by Stanley Morison together with Starling Burgess and Victor Lardent for the London newspaper “The Times”. It was first issued by the Monotype Corporation in 1932 . The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please note that Termes obsoletes the QuasiTimes fonts.

Licensing

The TeX Gyre fonts are being released under the GUST Font License (GFL), which is a free license, legally equivalent to the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL), version 1.3c or later.

Readings

The New Font Project: TeX Gyre

An updated and extended version of the “The New Font Project” article, by Hans Hagen (NTG), Jerzy Ludwichowski (GUST) and Volker RW Schaa (DANTE e.V.), describing the “New Font Project” now known as the “TeX Gyre Project”. The paper was given at the BachoTeX 2006 conference, Bachotek, Poland and is published here with TUGboat's kind permission.

TeX Gyre: The New Font Project

This presentation (in pdf) by Bogusław Jackowski, Janusz M. Nowacki and Jerzy Ludwichowski, was first given by the latter at EuroTeX 2006, Debrecen, Hungary and again, updated, at TUG 2006, Marrakech, Morocco.

Recent Advances in LUG’s font projects

A presentation (in pdf) by Bogusław Jackowski, Janusz M. Nowacki and Jerzy Ludwichowski, given at DANTE 2007, Münster, March 7th–9th, Germany.

Latin Alphabet Based Scripts

Michael Everson's site The Alphabets of Europe might be of interest to those who want, e.g., to verify to what extend the TeX Gyre families allow to typeset texts with Latin alphabet based scripts.

You may also find interesting the information on the Navajo and Vietnamese alphabets, both covered by the repertoire of glyphs of the Latin Modern and TeX Gyre collections.

There are, however, lots of Latin-based glyphs missing from the collections, see, e.g., the web page by Conrad Taylor “Typesetting African Languages”, which is a good thing, because it demonstrates that there is still a lot to be done within the Latin Modern and TeX Gyre projects.