DejaVu fonts

DejaVu fonts

Description

The DejaVu fonts are a font family based on the Bitstream Vera fonts release 1.10. Its purpose is to provide a wider range of characters while maintaining the original look and feel through the process of collaborative development.

Characteristics

Homepage	Format & features	License	Review reference	Koji page	pkgdb page
DejaVu	TTF, hinting, locl	Part Bitstream Vera, part public domain	FE-ML	dejavu-fonts	dejavu-fonts

Style					Faces					Scripts
Sans		Serif		Other	R	B	I	BI	Other	Latin	Greek	Cyrillic	Other
Variable	Monospace	Variable	Monospace
✘					✘	✘	✘	✘	Condensed, Extralight	✘	✘	✘	ar, hy, ka, nko, lo, tfng
	✘				✘	✘	✘	✘		✘	✘	✘	ar, ka, lo
		✘			✘	✘	✘	✘	Condensed	✘	✘	✘	ka

Additionnal information

DejaVu is one of the most popular free and open-source derivatives of the Bitstream Vera font family.

Thanks to the release of Bitstream Vera with a free and open-source license in April 2003, it has been possible for font designers to innovate by increasing the language coverage to support more Latin-based languages, Cyrillic, Greek and other scripts. For a list of such innovative font projects based on Bitstream Vera, see the Bitstream Vera derivatives list .

The Fedora default font changed to DejaVu LGC at Fedora Core 6 release time. DejaVu LGC is a DejaVu derivative with only Latin, Greek and Cyrillic glyphs.

Starting from the Fedora 9 release, DejaVu replaces Dejavu LGC as default Fedora font. DejaVu LGC is now built as a DejaVu subpackage.

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