Paratype released new version of its free-as-in-speech PT Sans font family.

Changes:

• missing Esperanto characters plus non-breakable hyphen glyph were added;
• smaller bounding box width for numerals;
• improved kerning;
• German Eszet glyph (germandbls) looks more traditional now;
• some vertical metrics were adjusted to fix incorrect calculation of text placement on Unix/Linux and Mac;
• 'ccmp' OpenType feature was added;
• hinting was improved for the bold typeface;
• embedded bitmaps were added for small font sizes;
• a separate font under OFL (with OFL text embedded) was generated;
• EOT and WOFF versions for Web were generated.

Usual version | OFL version | EOT, WOFF

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