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Open source casts new mold for type design (News.com)
News.com looks
at DejaVu fonts. "In 2003, type design company Bitstream, in
conjunction with the GNOME Foundation, released a font family called Vera
for open-source use. Under the license terms, anyone was permitted to make
new fonts based on Vera, as long as the derivatives were given a different
name. Now, with Vera essentially dormant, an international group has
picked up work on an offshoot called DejaVu. There are other Vera
derivatives, such as Erav. But DejaVu has caught on widely enough for it to
be the default font for Dapper Drake, the latest update to Ubuntu Linux. It
may also become the default font for Red Hat's Fedora version of
Linux." (Thanks to Nicolas Mailhot)
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Open source casts new mold for type design (News.com) Posted Jul 12, 2006 8:22 UTC (Wed) by yosch (guest, #4675) [Link] Great article. Congratulations to the Dejavu team for their work.
There's certainly a lot of good things happening in fontland these days!
An open font design community is forming and a growing number of high quality free/libre/open fonts are being released. These fonts are a great milestone in the efforts to make the free desktop much more multilingual.
Check out http://unifont.org/fontguide/ and http://scripts.sil.org/OFL_fonts
The Ubuntu community is working on various specs around fonts:
Open source casts new mold for type design (News.com) Posted Jul 31, 2006 18:45 UTC (Mon) by egoforth (guest, #2351) [Link] Man, if you haven't looked at these fonts, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. I have switched virtually everything I use to some form of DejaVu (Linux, MS Windows, Mac OS/X). They are very clean and readable. I wish I could find someway to make a donation (haven't found anything browsing the DejaWiki).
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