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Libre Franklin Fonts

4 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2019-04-08 · latest 2026-11-03

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  1. It's a fork of https://github.com/impallari/Libre-Franklin so it'd be a bit against the spirit of things (if even legally permitted) to relicense it to a non-free license. It'd also limit the US taxpayers who wanted to use it in ways that…
    comment by kevinslashslash · 2019-04-08 · in Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface for text or display
  2. The font was made via adjustments to an existing font https://github.com/impallari/Libre-Franklin so I doubt this was one designer's dream project.
    comment by brlewis · 2019-04-08 · in Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface for text or display
  3. Right. Their README specifies the exact same license as the upstream font https://github.com/impallari/Libre-Franklin
    comment by brlewis · 2019-04-08 · in Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface for text or display