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-[GNOME] and [Bitstream | http://www.bitstream.com/] recently got together to make some [Free] fonts for OpenSource projects. The effort resulted in the high quality BitstreamVera fontset, which can be downloaded and installed on any system you want.
+[GNOME] and [Bitstream | http://www.bitstream.com/] recently got together to make some [Free] fonts for OpenSource projects. The effort resulted in the high quality BitstreamVera fontset, which can be downloaded and installed on any system you want. The set consists of the following TrueType fonts:
-The set consists of the following TrueType fonts:
-
- A
serif font similar to Times
.
-__Bitstream Vera Sans__:
- A
very pleasant sans-serif font similar to Verdana/Helvetica.
-__Bitstream Vera Sans Mono__:
- A
gorgeous monospace font slightly similar to Terminal.
+*
__Bitstream Vera Serif__: a
serif font most
similar to Georgia
.
+*
__Bitstream Vera Sans__: a
very pleasant sans-serif font. It is
similar to Verdana/Helvetica, but wider and warmer
.
+*
__Bitstream Vera Sans Mono__: a
gorgeous monospace font slightly similar to Terminal.
-Unfortunately at the current version 1.10
the fonts only contain
the characters from iso_8859_15(7)/Western Europe charsets, lacking support for characters such as "ā" (
''A macron'', used for example in Māori).%%%
-There is fork of the Bitstream Vera fonts that adds many characters from other European languages. (It is a fork because the Bitstream Vera license requires them to be distributed under a different name.) This font is called [DejaVu
|http://dejavu
.sourceforge
.net
/] - see
the supported
-([list of characters|http://cvs
.sourceforge
.net
/viewcvs.py
/*checkout*
/dejavu
/dejavu-fonts
/status.txt]
).
+Information about
the BitstreamVera
fonts and downloads can be found See
the [GNOME
's announcement
| http://www
.gnome
.org/fonts
/]. Most distributions should have a package for
the BitstreamVera fontset
. If yours doesn't, see FontNotes for links and howtos on how to install them manually
. If you want to check to see if they are installed correctly and how they look on your computer, run <tt>xfontsel<
/tt>, select <tt>bitstream<
/tt> from the <tt>fndry<
/tt> (foundry) dropdown and <tt>bitstream vera<
/tt> from the <tt>fmly<
/tt> (family
) dropdown
. For the following distributions, the package is called:
-Information about the BitstreamVera fonts and downloads can be found with [GNOME's announcement | http
://www
.gnome
.org
/fonts/]
. The wiki uses the BitstreamVera
fonts if you have them installed
.
+* DebianLinux
: <tt>ttf-bitstream-vera<
/tt>
+* RedHat: <tt>bitstream-vera-fonts<
/tt>
+* [Slackware]: in 9
.1, <tt>ttf-bitstream-vera-1
.10-noarch-2<
/tt>; since 10
., has been subsumed into <tt>x11-
fonts-scale-''n
.x.y''-noarch-''z''</tt>
-Most distributions should have a package for the
BitstreamVera fontset
. If yours doesn
't
, see FontNotes
for links and howtos on how to install them manually
. If you want to check to see if they are installed correctly and how they look on your computer, run <tt>xfontsel<
/tt>, select <tt>bitstream<
/tt> from the <tt>fndry<
/tt> (foundry) dropdown and <tt>bitstream vera<
/tt> from the <tt>fmly<
/tt>
(family
) dropdown. For
the following distributions,
the package
is called
+The
BitstreamVera 1
.10 family contains only characters from iso_8859_15(7)/Western Europe charsets, lacking support for characters such as "ā" (''A macron'
', used
for example in Māori)
. A fork exists which adds [many characters | http:
//cvs.sourceforge.net
/viewcvs.py
/*checkout*
/dejavu/dejavu-fonts/status.txt] from other European languages
(and more
) while remaining true to
the feel and proportion of
the original. It
is called [DejaVu | http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/], because modifications of BitstreamVera have to be distributed under a different name per the license.
-DebianLinux:
- __ttf-bitstream-vera__ (in Testing/sarge and Unstable/sid)
-RedHat rawhide:
- __bitstream-vera-
fonts__
-[Slackware] 9
.1:
- __ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10-noarch-2__
+The wiki uses the BitstreamVera
fonts if you have them installed
.
