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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. Re:heres some images of vera by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    And clickable. You know, it's not _that_ hard, and it helps a lot - particularly with these long links that introduce spaces in plain text...

  2. copyright, etc by ergonal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    To me, a lot of fonts are pretty similar to each other (in the various "genres" of fonts, anyway).. Does anyone know HOW much they have to differ to avoid copyright issues, etc? It would appear to be a very fine line.

  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.

    --

    There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
  4. Re:I'm obviously retarded by ebingo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah you're retarded :)
    Here's a link.

  5. Re:open/free font editors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Try pfaedit. The user interface is rather spartan but it is very powerful.

  6. Postscript? by truenoir · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Any chance for Postscript versions of the font too in case someone wants to use it for serious printing?

  7. Re:I'm obviously retarded by 13Echo · · Score: 5, Informative

    It isn't a Verdana clone. There are a total of 10 fonts making for four sets. There are different types; serif, sans, and mono. Some look like a Times set. Some look like an Arial set. Some look similar to Verdana.

  8. Finally, a decent monospaced font! by zsazsa · · Score: 5, Informative

    I just installed these on my Windows machine. The monospace font is excellent. Until now I haven't seen a decent TTF monospace font that was properly hinted to keep it from looking horrible at 9pt, but still nice and smooth at large sizes.

    The Lucida Sans monospace font that came with Windows pales in comparison to Vera Sans Mono, even though the Lucida family was supposedly designed with bitmap screens in mind.

  9. Re:I'm obviously retarded by insin · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've made it my default font in Phoenix and it's a lot smoother than Verdana. I find it to be much easier on the eye and more pleasant to read.

    Here's a comparison (Verdana above, Vera below):
    Verdana and Vera