"DejaVu" redirects here. For the feeling that one has witnessed something previously, see déjà vu. For the document format, see DjVu. For other uses, see Déjà vu (disambiguation).
The DejaVu fonts are a superfamily of fonts designed for broad coverage of the UnicodeUniversal Character Set. The fonts are derived from Bitstream Vera (sans-serif) and Bitstream Charter (serif), two fonts released by Bitstream under a free license that allowed derivative works based upon them; the Vera and Charter families were limited mainly to the characters in the Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement portions of Unicode, roughly equivalent to ISO/IEC 8859-15, and Bitstream's licensing terms allowed the fonts to be expanded upon without explicit authorization. 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 wiki 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. 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 (terms also found in the later Open Font License); to the extent that the DejaVu fonts' changes can be separated from the original Bitstream Vera and Charter fonts, these changes have been deeded to the public domain.[1]
DejaVu fonts can be obtained from the DejaVu project repo on GitHub. Some operating systems (OpenBSD, Solaris, Haiku, AmigaOS 4, Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and RHEL) include DejaVu fonts in their default installation,[3][4][5][6][7] 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",[8] until they were replaced in BlackBerry 10 with Slate.[9]
DejaVu is a project which aims for complete coverage of the alphabetic scripts, abjads, and symbols with all characters that are part of the MES-1, MES-2, and hopefully MES-3 subsets of Unicode. The coverage is already considerable, although some more work is needed to include more hinting rules for clear results at small sizes. Some kerning rules are still being developed for the Sans and Serif styles, for fine typography. Some work is still also needed to create ligatures in these styles.
As of version 2.37, it included characters from the following Unicode blocks.[12] (The fraction given is the number of characters in each block that are included in the DejaVu fonts.)
The 10 styles provided by the original Bitstream Vera fonts have been augmented to 21 styles:
DejaVu Sans
DejaVu Serif
DejaVu Sans Mono
Book / Oblique
Book / Italic
Book / Oblique
Bold / Oblique
Bold / Italic
Bold / Oblique
Extralight
Condensed / Oblique
Condensed / Italic
Condensed Bold / Oblique
Condensed Bold / Italic
Original styles are marked in bold.
DejaVu Sans Mono
The DejaVu Sans Mono typeface in particular is suitable for technical contexts, since it clearly distinguishes "l" (lowercase L) from "1" (one) and from "I" (uppercase i); also it clearly distinguishes "0" (zero, null) from "O" (uppercase o).[13]
One derivative of the DejaVu Sans Mono typeface, the Menlo typeface, is provided by Apple with the Mac OS X 10.6 operating system.
Role of typographically incompatible scripts
There has recently as of may 2017[when?] been some question within the DejaVu community about the role of scripts typographically incompatible with the typographically similar scripts Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic (LGC). Most notably, Arabic has been added, but it has caused some software compatibility issues.[citation needed] Further, Latin and Arabic scripts have fundamentally different approaches to typefaces: while Latin fonts have serif and sans-serif versions, Arabic fonts have different distinctions (see Islamic calligraphy). It is still uncertain how the project should handle the mixture between different Latin faces and the different Arabic faces.
The uncertain status of Arabic and other alphabets has led to the creation of DejaVu LGC, a subset of the DejaVu fonts which contains only Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic characters. This version also tends not to experience as many software issues.[citation needed]
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DejaVu redirects here For the feeling that one has witnessed something previously see deja vu For the document format see DjVu For other uses see Deja vu disambiguation The DejaVu fonts are a superfamily of fonts designed for broad coverage of the Unicode Universal Character Set The fonts are derived from Bitstream Vera sans serif and Bitstream Charter serif two fonts released by Bitstream under a free license that allowed derivative works based upon them the Vera and Charter families were limited mainly to the characters in the Basic Latin and Latin 1 Supplement portions of Unicode roughly equivalent to ISO IEC 8859 15 and Bitstream s licensing terms allowed the fonts to be expanded upon without explicit authorization 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 wiki and a mailing list DejaVuCategorySerif Sans sans serif Sans Mono monospace variants Bold Oblique Bold ObliqueFoundryNoneDate created2004Date released2004LicenseBitstream Vera Fonts Copyright Arev Fonts Copyright Public Domain 1 Design based onBitstream Vera release 1 10VariationsSerif Condensed a Sans Condensed a Websitedejavu fonts wbr github wbr ioLatest release version2 37 2 Latest release date30 July 2016Metrically compatible withVerdana DejaVu Sans The DejaVu fonts project was started by Stepan 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 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 terms also found in the later Open Font License to the extent that the DejaVu fonts changes can be separated from the original Bitstream Vera and Charter fonts these changes have been deeded to the public domain 1 Contents 1 Usage 2 Unicode coverage 2 1 Plane 0 Basic Multilingual Plane BMP Range 0000 FFFF 0 65 535 2 2 Plane 1 Supplementary Multilingual Plane SMP Range 10000 1FFFF 65 536 131 071 3 Styles 4 DejaVu Sans Mono 5 Role of typographically incompatible scripts 6 See also 7 Notes 8 References 9 External linksUsage EditDejaVu fonts can be obtained from the DejaVu project repo on GitHub Some operating systems OpenBSD Solaris Haiku AmigaOS 4 Linux distributions such as Ubuntu Debian Fedora and RHEL include DejaVu fonts in their default installation 3 4 5 6 7 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 8 until they were replaced in BlackBerry 10 with Slate 9 DejaVu Serif Bold was used by designer Jonathan Barnbrook in the promotional and packaging materials for Blackstar the final album of English musician David Bowie before his death in January 2016 10 11 citation needed DejaVu Serif DejaVu Sans Mono DejaVu SansUnicode coverage EditDejaVu is a project which aims for complete coverage of the alphabetic scripts abjads and symbols with all characters that are part of the MES 1 MES 2 and hopefully MES 3 subsets of Unicode The coverage is already considerable although some more work is needed to include more hinting rules for clear results at small sizes Some kerning rules are still being developed for the Sans and Serif styles for fine typography Some work is still also needed to create ligatures in these styles As of version 2 37 it included characters from the following Unicode blocks 12 The fraction given is the number of characters in each block that are included in the DejaVu fonts Plane 0 Basic Multilingual Plane BMP Range 0000 FFFF 0 65 535 EditC0 Controls and Basic Latin 95 95 100 100 C1 Controls and Latin 1 Supplement 96 96 100 100 Latin Extended A 128 128 100 100 Latin Extended B 208 208 100 100 IPA Extensions 96 96 100 100 Spacing Modifier Letters 63 80 79 79 Combining Diacritical Marks 93 112 83 83 Greek and Coptic 135 135 100 100 Cyrillic 256 256 100 100 Cyrillic Supplement 38 48 79 79 Armenian 86 89 96 96 Hebrew 54 87 62 62 Arabic 165 255 64 64 N Ko 54 59 92 92 Thai 1 87 1 1 Lao 65 67 97 97 Georgian 83 88 94 94 Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics 404 640 63 63 Ogham 29 29 100 100 Phonetic Extensions 106 128 83 83 Phonetic Extensions Supplement 38 64 59 59 Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement 6 59 10 10 Latin Extended Additional 252 256 98 98 Greek Extended 233 233 100 100 General Punctuation 107 111 96 96 Superscripts and Subscripts 42 42 100 100 Currency Symbols 26 31 84 84 Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols 7 33 21 21 Letterlike Symbols 75 80 94 94 Number Forms 55 60 92 92 Arrows 112 112 100 100 Mathematical Operators 256 256 100 100 Miscellaneous Technical 136 255 53 53 Control Pictures 2 39 5 5 Enclosed Alphanumerics 10 160 6 6 Box Drawing 128 128 100 100 Block Elements 32 32 100 100 Geometric Shapes 96 96 100 100 Miscellaneous Symbols 189 256 74 74 Dingbats 174 192 91 91 Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols A 9 48 19 19 Supplemental Arrows A 16 16 100 100 Braille Patterns 256 256 100 100 Supplemental Arrows B 128 128 100 100 Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols B 13 128 10 10 Supplemental Mathematical Operators 74 256 29 29 Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows 35 206 17 17 Latin Extended C 31 32 96 96 Georgian Supplement 38 40 95 95 Tifinagh 55 59 93 93 Supplemental Punctuation 7 69 10 10 Yijing Hexagram Symbols 64 64 100 100 Lisu 48 48 100 100 Cyrillic Extended B 33 96 34 34 Modifier Tone Letters 20 32 62 62 Latin Extended D 77 160 48 48 Alphabetic Presentation Forms 58 58 100 100 Arabic Presentation Forms A 108 611 18 18 Variation Selectors 16 16 100 100 Combining Half Marks 4 16 25 25 Arabic Presentation Forms B 141 141 100 100 Specials 5 5 100 100 Plane 1 Supplementary Multilingual Plane SMP Range 10000 1FFFF 65 536 131 071 EditOld Italic 35 36 97 97 Tai Xuan Jing Symbols 87 87 100 100 Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols 117 996 12 12 Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols 74 143 52 52 Domino Tiles 100 100 100 100 Playing Cards 59 82 72 72 Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 12 768 2 2 Emoticons 64 80 80 80 Styles EditThe 10 styles provided by the original Bitstream Vera fonts have been augmented to 21 styles DejaVu Sans DejaVu Serif DejaVu Sans MonoBook Oblique Book Italic Book ObliqueBold Oblique Bold Italic Bold ObliqueExtralightCondensed Oblique Condensed ItalicCondensed Bold Oblique Condensed Bold ItalicOriginal styles are marked in bold DejaVu Sans Mono EditThe DejaVu Sans Mono typeface in particular is suitable for technical contexts since it clearly distinguishes l lowercase L from 1 one and from I uppercase i also it clearly distinguishes 0 zero null from O uppercase o 13 One derivative of the DejaVu Sans Mono typeface the Menlo typeface is provided by Apple with the Mac OS X 10 6 operating system Role of typographically incompatible scripts EditThere has recently as of may 2017 when been some question within the DejaVu community about the role of scripts typographically incompatible with the typographically similar scripts Latin Greek and Cyrillic LGC Most notably Arabic has been added but it has caused some software compatibility issues citation needed Further Latin and Arabic scripts have fundamentally different approaches to typefaces while Latin fonts have serif and sans serif versions Arabic fonts have different distinctions see Islamic calligraphy It is still uncertain how the project should handle the mixture between different Latin faces and the different Arabic faces The uncertain status of Arabic and other alphabets has led to the creation of DejaVu LGC a subset of the DejaVu fonts which contains only Latin Greek and Cyrillic characters This version also tends not to experience as many software issues citation needed See also EditList of typefaces Unicode font Open source Unicode typefacesNotes Edit a b Experimental styleReferences Edit a b DejaVu Fonts License Release 2 37 30 July 2016 Retrieved 17 May 2018 Anti aliasing and TrueType Fonts on OpenBSD Frequently Asked Questions OpenBSD Archived from the original on 2014 04 13 Retrieved 2014 04 11 DejaVu Download Retrieved 2013 01 16 DejaVu fonts FedoraProject Fedora Project Retrieved 2013 01 16 Package list openSUSE Archived from the original on 2013 01 22 Retrieved 2013 01 16 Packages included in Mandriva Linux One 2010 Archived from the original on 2013 03 06 Retrieved 2013 01 16 Halevy Ronen 2009 08 07 Like Those Pretty Fonts in OS 4 5 Thank Bitstream Bolt amp DejaVu Kinsella Alex 2012 07 24 Font Changes for BlackBerry 10 Archived from the original on 2014 12 24 Retrieved 2014 12 23 Jonathan Barnbrook David Bowie Blackstar Cover Design Tokyo TDC in Japanese Archived from the original on 2020 12 20 Retrieved 2020 12 20 Bowie Blackstar www bowieblackstar net Archived from the original on 2019 09 28 Retrieved 2020 06 27 dejavu fonts unicover txt at version 2 37 dejavu fonts dejavu fonts GitHub 2016 07 14 Retrieved 2017 02 01 Sans serif font survey results April 2012 Archived from the original on July 31 2012 Retrieved October 20 2012 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint unfit URL link External links EditOfficial website DejaVu fonts on GitHub Official website wiki archive The Wayback Machine final crawl before site was shut down Shankland Stephen 2006 07 11 Open source casts new mold for type design CNET Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title DejaVu fonts amp oldid 1114286045, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
