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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. The set consists of the following TrueType fonts:
+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:
* __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.
-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:
+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>
+For more information about the BitstreamVera fonts and downloads see the [GNOME's announcement | http
://www
.gnome
.org
/fonts/]
.
-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
.
-
-The wiki uses
the BitstreamVera fonts if
you have them installed
.
+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
.
