Nimbus Roman is a serif

Serif

In typography, serifs are semi-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. A typeface with serifs is called a serif typeface . A typeface without serifs is called sans serif or sans-serif, from the French sans, meaning “without”...

 typeface created by URW Studio in 1982.

Nimbus Roman No 9 L is a serif

Serif

In typography, serifs are semi-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. A typeface with serifs is called a serif typeface . A typeface without serifs is called sans serif or sans-serif, from the French sans, meaning “without”...

 typeface created by URW Studio in 1987, and eventually released under the GPL

GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

 and AFPL

Aladdin Free Public License

The Aladdin Free Public License, abbreviated AFPL, is a license written by L. Peter Deutsch for his Ghostscript PostScript language interpreter.-History:The license was derived from the GNU General Public License, but differs on two key points:...

 (as Type 1 font for Ghostscript) in 1996 and LPPL

LaTeX Project Public License

The LaTeX Project Public License is a software license originally written for the LaTeX system. Software distributed under the terms of the LPPL can be regarded as free software, however it is not copylefted....

 in 2009. It features Normal, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic weights, and is one of several freely licensed fonts offered by URW++.

Although the characters are not exactly the same, Nimbus Roman No 9 L has metrics almost identical to Times

Times Roman

Times New Roman is a serif typeface commissioned by the British newspaper The Times in 1931, created by Victor Lardent at the English branch of Monotype. It was commissioned after Stanley Morison had written an article criticizing The Times for being badly printed and typographically antiquated...

 and Times New Roman

Times Roman

Times New Roman is a serif typeface commissioned by the British newspaper The Times in 1931, created by Victor Lardent at the English branch of Monotype. It was commissioned after Stanley Morison had written an article criticizing The Times for being badly printed and typographically antiquated...

. It is one of the Ghostscript

Ghostscript

Ghostscript is a suite of software based on an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript and Portable Document Format page description languages.- Features :...

 fonts, a free alternatives to 35 basic PostScript fonts (which include Times).

It is a standard typeface in many GNU/Linux distributions. It was used as default font in OpenOffice.org Writer in some GNU/Linux distributions (e.g. Ubuntu - up to version 8.10; since Ubuntu 9.04 the default font was changed to Liberation Serif).

External links

• URW++ Homepage
• URW++ Nimbus Roman No9 L - (German page) commercial version, page
• Ghostscript SVN - URW fonts (Type 1 fonts)
• NimbusRoman No9 L-Regular - font metrics
• Ghostscript changelog (includes changes in Nimbus fonts)
• Fonts and font facilities supplied with Ghostscript
• Guide to Pre-Installed Fonts in Linux, Mac, and Windows (2007)