The M+ OUTLINE FONTS are a font family under the Free license. You can use, copy, and distribute it, with or without modification, either commercially and noncommercially.
The M+ OUTLINE FONTS are distributed with proportional Latin (4 variations), fixed-halfwidth Latin (3 variations) and fixed-fullwidth Japanese (2 Kana variations) character set. 7 weights from Thin to Black are included, but fixed-halfwidth Latin with 5 weights from Thin to Bold.
| Basic Latin | Proportional | 7 weights | Completed |
| Fixed-Halfwidth | 5 weights | Completed | |
| Fixed-Fullwidth | 7 weights | Completed | |
| Latin-1 Supplement | Proportional | 7 weights | Completed |
| Fixed-Halfwidth | 5 weights | Completed | |
| Latin Extended-A | Proportional | 7 weights | Completed |
| Fixed-Halfwidth | 5 weights | Completed | |
| Japanese Kana | Fixed-Fullwidth Hiragana | 7 weights | Completed |
| Fixed-Fullwidth Katakana | 7 weights | Completed | |
| Fixed-Halfwidth Katakana | 7 weights | Completed | |
| Japanese Kanji | Kanji for Educational Use | 7 weights | Completed |
| Kanji for General Use | 7 weights | Completed | |
| JIS Level-1 Kanji | 7 weights | At work | |
| JIS Level-2 Kanji | 7 weights | At work |
All fonts were completed with Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, and IPA Extensions. And most of Greek, Cyrillic, Vietnamese, and extended glyphs and symbols were prepared too. So the fonts are in conformity with ISO-8859-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, Windows-1252, T1, and VISCII encoding.
In addition, proportional M+ P Type-1 and M+ P Type-2 fonts were completed with Latin Extended-B, Latin Extended Additional, Windows Glyph List 4 (WGL4) and Hebrew (ISO-8859-8). And many Greek, Cyrillic, IPA Extensions glyphs, and symbols were expanded. Those additional glyphs are included in M+ C provisionality.
| ISO-8859-1 | Latin-1 Western European | Wikipedia |
| ISO-8859-2 | Latin-2 Central European | Wikipedia |
| ISO-8859-3 | Latin-3 South European | Wikipedia |
| ISO-8859-4 | Latin-4 North European | Wikipedia |
| ISO-8859-5 | Latin/Cyrillic | Wikipedia |
| ISO-8859-7 | Latin/Greek | Wikipedia |
| ISO-8859-8 | Latin/Hebrew | Wikipedia |
| ISO-8859-9 | Latin-5 Turkish | Wikipedia |
| ISO-8859-10 | Latin-6 Nordic | Wikipedia |
| ISO-8859-13 | Latin-7 Baltic Rim | Wikipedia |
| ISO-8859-14 | Latin-8 Celtic | Wikipedia |
| ISO-8859-15 | Latin-9 A revision of 8859-1 | Wikipedia |
| ISO-8859-16 | Latin-10 South-Eastern European | Wikipedia |
| T1 Encoding | Default 8-bit encoding in many TeX installations | Wikipedia |
| Windows-1252 | Used by default in the legacy components of MS Windows | Wikipedia |
| WGL4 | Pan-European character set defined by Microsoft | Wikipedia |
| VISCII | Vietnamese standard character set | Wikipedia |
These fonts are free softwares.
Unlimited permission is granted to use, copy, and distribute it, with or without modification, either commercially and noncommercially.
THESE FONTS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY.
*3 It's also required to be EASY ENGLISH :-)
The M+ OUTLINE FONTS are built with FontForge, and hosted by SOURCEFORGE.JP. Special thanks to everyone who's involved in those projects.
Special thanks to Hiroyuki Ikezoe for donating in Mar 2005.
