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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.
+In 2003,
[GNOME] and [Bitstream | http://www.bitstream.com/] got together to make some [Free] fonts for OpenSource projects. The effort resulted in the high quality BitstreamVera font set
, 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])
.
+The wiki uses
the BitstreamVera
fonts if you have
them installed
.
-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
.
+For more information
about the BitstreamVera fonts and downloads 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
-
-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
BitstreamVera 1
.10 family contains only characters from [iso_8859_15(7)] ie. Western European charsets, lacking support for characters such as "ā" (''A macron'
', used
for example in Māori)
. There is a fork called [DejaVu | http:
//dejavu.sourceforge.net
/] which aims to cover as much of [Unicode] as feasible while remaining true to the feel
and proportion of
the original
. (It had to be given a different name because
the licence demands this to permit
the distribution of modifications.) Nowadays, ~DejaVu
is the preferred family;
in fact, some LinuxDistribution~s no longer provide
[Package
]s of Vera, only of ~DejaVu
. If you are using such a distro and want/need Vera as well for some reason, you can following the instructions in FontNotes to install Vera manually
.
