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 | ||||
Additional 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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