Nimbus Roman No. 9 L

Nimbus Roman is a serif typeface created by URW Studio in 1982.^[1]

Nimbus Roman

Category	Serif
Classification	Transitional
Designer(s)	URW Studio; (Stanley Morison, Victor Lardent); GPL published also by Valek Fillipov
Foundry	URW++
Date released	1982 (1931)[1]
Design based on	Times New Roman
Variations	URW Heisei Mincho
Website	www.urwpp.de

Nimbus Roman No. 9 L is a serif typeface created by URW Studio in 1987,^[2] and eventually released under the GPL and AFPL (as Type 1 font for Ghostscript) in 1996^[3][4][5][6] and LPPL in 2009.^[7][8][9] 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 New Roman and Times Roman. It is one of the Ghostscript fonts, a free alternative to 35 basic PostScript fonts (which include Times).^[10][11]

It is a standard typeface in many Linux distributions.^[12][13]

See also

• Nimbus Mono L
• Nimbus Sans L
• Free software Unicode typefaces