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Bitstream/Gnome Release Vera Font Family

Posted by michael on from the grand-unified-font-solution-still-elusive dept.

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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  1. word by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm using them right now, and they're simply beautiful. I suggest someone mirrors them before the site is slashdotted...

  2. Re:This is good news... by OpCode42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    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!

  3. Re:I'm obviously retarded by AssFace · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, but neither can match the beauty of Wingdings.

    I use that badboy for everything.

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  4. Initial thoughts on Vera by Jon+Abbott · · Score: 4, Funny

    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. :^)

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  5. Vera! by swordboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Vera!

    What has become of you?

    Does anybody else in here feel the way I do?

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  6. Anyway, You All Forgot The Most Important Thing... by insin · · Score: 2, Funny

    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

  7. Re:Relative Font Sizes by smcv · · Score: 2, Funny

    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 :-)