DejaVu fonts
| Category |
Serif, Sans (sans-serif), Sans Mono (monospace) variants: Bold, Oblique, Bold Oblique |
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| Foundry | None |
| Date created | 2004 |
| Date released | 2.37 / July 30, 2016 |
| License | Bitstream Vera Fonts Copyright, Arev Fonts Copyright, Public Domain |
| Design based on | Bitstream Vera release 1.10 |
| Variations | Serif Condensed (*), Sans Condensed (*), (*): experimental style |
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| Website | https://dejavu-fonts.github.io/ |
The DejaVu fonts are modifications of the Bitstream Vera fonts designed for greater coverage of Unicode, as well as providing more styles. The Bitstream Vera family was limited mainly to the characters in the Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement portions of Unicode, roughly equivalent to ISO/IEC 8859-15, but was released with a license that permitted changes. The DejaVu fonts project was started with the aim to "provide a wider range of characters ... while maintaining the original look and feel through the process of collaborative development". The development of the fonts is done by many contributors, and is organized through a and a mailing list.
The DejaVu fonts project was started by Štěpán Roh. Over time, it has absorbed several other projects that also existed to extend the Bitstream Vera typefaces; these projects include the Olwen Font Family, Bepa, Arev Fonts (only partially), and the SUSE Linux standard fonts. Changes made by the DejaVu project are public domain, while the full project incorporates the Bitstream Vera license, an extended MIT License which restricts naming of modified distributions and prohibits individual sale of the typefaces, although they may be embedded within a larger commercial software package.
DejaVu fonts can be obtained from the DejaVu project on SourceForge. Some operating systems (OpenBSD, Solaris, Haiku, AmigaOS 4, GNU/Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and RHEL) include DejaVu fonts in their default installation, sometimes even using them as their system fonts. These fonts were also included in the proprietary BlackBerry OS, since its version 4.5, under the names "BBAlphaSans" and "BBAlphaSerif", until they were replaced in BlackBerry 10 with Slate.
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