Bitstream Vera

Vera is a typeface (font) with a liberal license.It was designed by Jim Lyles from Bitstream,and is closely based on Bitstream's Prima, for which Lyles was also responsible.It is a TrueType font with full hinting instructions, which improve its rendering quality on low-resolution devices such as computer monitors. The font has also been repackaged as a Type 1 PostScript font for LaTeX users, and is called "Bera". [cite web |url=http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/bera/ |title="Bera" font pack for LaTeX |date=2004-09-30 |author=Rosenau, M; Schmidt, W. ]

Vera consists of serif, sans-serif and monospace fonts, as follows:

Although Vera itself covers only common punctuation and the Latin alphabet with some diacritics, its license allows others to make and distribute derivative works with some restrictions, and the DejaVu fonts project is expanding it with additional glyphs. As of 2007, the DejaVu fonts have been gaining the role as default fonts in GNU/Linux.

Also, the Bitstream Vera fonts are available for users of OpenOffice.org to download through the FontOOo wizard.

ee also

* Bitstream Cyberbit
* DejaVu fonts
* TITUS Cyberbit Basic
* List of typefaces
* Unicode fonts

References

External links

* [http://www.gnome.org/fonts Bitstream Vera]
* [http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/ DejaVu fonts project]
* [http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Bitstream_Vera_derivatives Bitstream Vera derivatives]