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Bitstream/Gnome Release Vera Font Family
bluephone writes "Gnome and Bitstream have released the final version of the Vera font family. Go get it, install them, and enjoy! They work for Windows and Mac users too!" Our earlier story.
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I'm using them right now, and they're simply beautiful. I suggest someone mirrors them before the site is slashdotted...
New fonts are like christmas. It's like getting a
new version of your favorite mp3 player or P2P
client with new stuff added. Free stuff rules.
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
What??! We're supposed to read the articles as well now!!? :-D
*grins* I never do actually. I just click the links and read the articles.
But yeah, oops! That was not one of my smarter comments!
They are all small steps until I can buy any game at EB and play it on Linux
Yeah, that does suck. I mean, I bought Vice City last week, and they said I actually had to own a playstation2 to play it!
Yes, but neither can match the beauty of Wingdings.
I use that badboy for everything.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
Vera sans seems very similar to Verdana, while Vera serif seems very similar to Century. I never previously considered Verdana and Century to be similar (disregarding serifs of course), but Vera draws this strange similarity together quite easily.
:^)
OK, I admit it, I'm a font geek... I can readily identify what fonts that restaurants use on their menus, and so on. If I ever became a superhero, that would probably be one of my superpowers.
Slashdot's first reaction to VMware
Vera!
What has become of you?
Does anybody else in here feel the way I do?
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
Windows: Drop into the winnt\system32\fonts folder (I wouldn't be surprised if right-clicking a font gave you the option of doing that).
Macintosh: Drop into the System:Fonts folder. Newer Finders might magic-route it if you drop it onto the system folder
BeOS: Copy to the home/settings/fonts/ folder, start up the fonts preferences, and click rescan button
XFree86.... search for half an hour to find where fonts are stored. Copy it there. Restart X. wonder why it doesn't show. search man pages for half an hour. Search HOWTOS for an hour. Realize your copy of XFree86 doesn't support tretype fonts. Reboot into windows.
How does it perform with smilies?
The slight offset of the monospaced closing round bracket gives your smiles a new and cheeky character of their own.
Check out some smilies
It's handy, as my eyesight isn't the best and spending 12 hours a day in front of a monitor will -really- stress them out. A quick mutter of "damn designers" when I hit a page that's forcing small font sizes...
:-)
I can just imagine some future speech recognition system where saying "damn designers" to a web browser will switch off animation and enable sensible fonts