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Bitstream Vera Fonts 1.10 Released (GnomeDesktop)

[Posted April 21, 2003 by cook]

GnomeDesktop has an announcement for a new release of the Bitstream Vera Fonts. "There are four monospace and sans faces (normal, oblique, bold, bold oblique) and two serif faces (normal and bold). Fontconfig/Xft2 can artificially oblique the serif faces for you: this loses hinting and distorts the faces slightly, but is visibly different than normal and bold, and reasonably pleasing."

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Posted Apr 24, 2003 3:08 UTC (Thu) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]

These are wonderful fonts! Thank you! Thank you Thank you! :-)

I've been wanting something as good as Veranda for a long time, and these are very close. They're also easy to use if you're running fontconfig. They even make LWN look good! ;-)

Bitstream Vera Fonts 1.10 Released (GnomeDesktop)

Posted Apr 24, 2003 14:44 UTC (Thu) by jdthood (subscriber, #4157) [Link]

Yes! Last night I installed debian packages
fontconfig_2.2.0-1 and ttf-bitstream-vera_1.10-1
and was pleasantly surprised when I called up
LWN this morning.