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title: We're back with a free font suggestion -- Liberation Sans
date: 2008-03-27T22:11:50+00:00
modified: 2013-09-24T14:08:42+00:00
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# We’re back with a free font suggestion — Liberation Sans

[![Liberation Sans typeface, font example](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/liberation-sans-font.png)](https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/ "Download Liberation font family") Why use Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica or Verdana if there is the fantastic **[Liberation Sans](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts "Read more about Liberation font family on Wikipedia")** — created by [Steve Matteson](http://www.ascendercorp.com/stevepage.html "Author of Liberation typeface") and liberated by [Red Hat, Inc](https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/ "Read more about the release of Liberation font family by Red Hat"). under *GNU GPL* licence.

Here is an example of a poster with all the typeface set in Liberation Sans:

![Sample poster set in Liberation Sans for Latsign](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/liberation-sans-poster-latsign.png)