The DejaVu fonts are modifications of the Bitstream Vera fonts designed to extend this original for greater coverage of Unicode. 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-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 wiki and a mailing list. For other uses, see Déjà vu (disambiguation). ... “Font” redirects here. ... “Font” redirects here. ... In typography, serifs are non-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. ... In typography, serifs are the small features at the end of strokes within letters. ... In some context, it may be necessary to have columns of characters consistently aligned. ... A type foundry is a company that designs and/or distributes typefaces. ... The classic sentence using Vera Sans. ... Image File history File links Dejavu_Fonts_Sample. ... The classic sentence using Vera Sans. ... “Font” redirects here. ... The Unicode Standard, Version 5. ... ISO 8859-15, also known as Latin-9, and unofficially as Latin-0 but not as Latin-15, is part 15 of ISO 8859, a standard character encoding defined by ISO. It encodes characters as 8 bits and can be used to represent the alphabet and other important characters for... Look up Wiki in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients. ...

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 standard fonts. The fonts are free as in freedom, and may thus freely be embedded. DejaVu fonts can be obtained for free (gratis) from the DejaVu project on SourceForge. SUSE (properly pronounced , but often pronounced /suzi/) is a major retail Linux distribution, produced in Germany. ... Gratis versus Libre is the distinction between zero price and freedom. ... Gratis versus Libre is the distinction between zero price and freedom. ... SourceForge is a collaborative revision control and software development management system. ...

Controversy

Recently there has been some controversy, or at least extended discussion, about the role of scripts typographically incompatible with the typographically similar scripts Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic (LGC) in the fonts. Most notably, Arabic has been added, but it has caused some software compatibility issues. 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 Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world, the standard script of the English language and most of the languages of western and central Europe, and of those areas settled by Europeans. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used for several East and South Slavic languages; (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... “Arabic” redirects here. ... In typography, serifs are non-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. ... The stylized signature (tughra) of Sultan Mahmud II of the Ottoman Empire was written in an expressive calligraphy. ...

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.

Coverage

DejaVu is an active project, which hopes covering completely 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, for each one of its supported style and variants. The coverage is already excellent, even though 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. It is still not known for now if the project will include support for the complex Indian abugida scripts which require a lot of ligatures and substitution features. An abjad is a type of writing system where there is one symbol per consonantal phoneme, sometimes also called a consonantary. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Ligature (palaeography). ...

As of version 2.18 it included characters from the following Unicode blocks:

• Basic Latin (95/95)
• Latin-1 Supplement (96/96)
• Latin Extended-A (128/128)
• Latin Extended-B (208/208)
• IPA Extensions (96/96)
• Spacing Modifier Letters (63/80)
• Combining Diacritical Marks (92/112)
• Greek and Coptic (127/127)
• Cyrillic (255/255)
• Cyrillic Supplement (20/20)
• Armenian (86/86)
• Hebrew (54/87)
• Arabic (111/235)
• NKo (54/59)
• Thai (1/87)
• Lao (65/65)
• Georgian (83/83)
• Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (404/630)
• Phonetic Extensions (105/128)
• Phonetic Extensions Supplement (38/64)
• Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement (6/13)
• Latin Extended Additional (246/246)
• Greek Extended (233/233)
• General Punctuation (104/106)
• Superscripts and Subscripts (34/34)
• Currency Symbols (22/22)
• Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols (4/32)
• Letterlike Symbols (75/79)
• Number Forms (50/50)
• Arrows (112/112)
• Mathematical Operators (245/256)
• Miscellaneous Technical (64/232)
• Control Pictures (2/39)
• Enclosed Alphanumerics (10/160)
• Block Elements (32/32)
• Geometric Shapes (96/96)
• Miscellaneous Symbols (176/176)
• Dingbats (174/174)
• Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A (7/39)
• Supplemental Arrows-A (16/16)
• Braille Patterns (256/256)
• Supplemental Arrows-B (6/128)
• Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B (13/128)
• Supplemental Mathematical Operators (72/256)
• Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows (31/31)
• Latin Extended-C (17/17)
• Tifinagh (55/55)
• Alphabetic Presentation Forms (58/58)
• Arabic Presentation Forms-A (70/595)
• Variation Selectors (16/16)
• Arabic Presentation Forms-B (141/141)
• Specials (1/5)
• Tai Xuan Jing Symbols (87/87)
• Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (45/996)

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Unicode ranges encoding mathematical operators: Mathematical Operators (2200–22FF) Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A (27C0–27EF) Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B (2980–29FF) Supplemental Mathematical Operators (2A00–2AFF) Unicode Symbols Mapping of Unicode characters http://www. ... Unicode ranges encoding mathematical operators: Mathematical Operators (2200–22FF) Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A (27C0–27EF) Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B (2980–29FF) Supplemental Mathematical Operators (2A00–2AFF) Unicode Symbols Mapping of Unicode characters http://www. ... In computing, in addition to encoding characters for the various writing systems used throughout the World, Unicode also devotes several blocks of characters to symbols that have a well-defined place in plain text. ... Unicode as of version 5. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... 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See also

• List of typefaces
• Unicode typefaces

This is a list of typefaces. ... Unicode typefaces (also known as UCS fonts and Unicode fonts) contains wide range of characters, letters, digits, glyphs, symbols, ideograms, logograms, etc, which are collectively mapped into Universal Character Set, also known as, UCS (which is an international standard ISO/IEC 10646), derived from many different languages, scripts from all...

External links

• DejaVuWiki (official website)
• CNet article on DejaVu fonts, July 11, 2006