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| Category | Serif, Sans (sans-serif), Sans Mono (monospace) variants: Bold, Oblique, Bold Oblique |
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| Foundry | None |
| Date created | 2004 |
| Date released | 2004 |
| License | Bitstream Vera Fonts Copyright, Arev Fonts Copyright, Public Domain[1] |
| Design based on | Bitstream Vera release 1.10 |
| Variations | Serif Condensed[a], Sans Condensed[a] |
| Website | dejavu-fonts |
| Latest release version | 2.37[2]  |
| Latest release date | 30 July 2016 |
The DejaVu fonts are a superfamily of fonts designed for broad coverage of the Unicode Universal Character Set. The fonts are derived from Bitstream Vera (sans-serif) and Bitstream Charter (serif), two fonts released by Bitstream under a free license that allowed derivative works based upon them; the Vera and Charter families were limited mainly to the characters in the Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement portions of Unicode, roughly equivalent to ISO/IEC 8859-15, and Bitstream's licensing terms allowed the fonts to be expanded upon without explicit authorization. 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.
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 Linux standard fonts. The full project incorporates the Bitstream Vera license, an extended MIT License, which restricts naming of modified distributions and prohibits individual sale of the typefaces, although they may be embedded within a larger commercial software package (terms also found in the later Open Font License); to the extent that the DejaVu fonts' changes can be separated from the original Bitstream Vera and Charter fonts, these changes have been deeded to the public domain.[1]
- ^ a b "DejaVu Fonts — License".
- ^ "Release 2.37". 30 July 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
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