The ChromeOS core fonts, also known as the Croscore fonts, are a collection of three TrueType Typeface: Arimo (sans-serif), Tinos (serif) and Cousine (monospaced font). These fonts are metrically compatible with Monotype Corporation’s Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New, the most commonly used fonts on Microsoft Windows, for which they are intended as open-source substitutes.[
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Google licenses these fonts from Ascender Corporation under the Apache License.
The fonts were originally developed by Steve Matteson as Ascender Sans and Ascender Serif, and were also the basis for the Liberation fonts licensed by Red Hat under another open source license.[Nathan Willis, Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization, LWN.net, 19 June 2012.] In July 2012, version 2.0 of the Liberation fonts, based on the Croscore fonts, was released under the SIL Open Font License.
The fonts are also available at the Noto fonts repository at GitHub.
Crosextra fonts
In 2013, Google released an additional Crosextra (ChromeOS Extra) package, featuring Carlito (which matches Microsoft's Calibri) and Caladea (matching Cambria).
See also
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Droid fonts, a font family by the same font designer
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Liberation fonts, related metric-compatible font families also made by Ascender Corporation
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