DejaVu fonts

Short description: Open-source Unicode fonts

"DejaVu" redirects here. For the feeling that one has witnessed something previously, see déjà vu. For the document format, see DjVu. For other uses, see Déjà vu (disambiguation).

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Category| Serif,
Sans (sans-serif),
Sans Mono (monospace)
variants: Bold, Oblique, Bold Oblique
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[lower-alpha 1],
Sans Condensed[lower-alpha 1]
Website| dejavu-fonts.github.io

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]

## Contents

* 1 Usage
* 2 Unicode coverage
* 2.1 Plane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) Range: 0000-FFFF (0–65,535)
* 2.2 Plane 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP) Range: 10000-1FFFF (65,536–131,071)
* 3 Styles
* 4 DejaVu Sans Mono
* 5 Stylistic alternates
* 6 See also
* 7 Notes
* 8 References
* 9 External links

## Usage

DejaVu fonts can be obtained from the DejaVu project repo on GitHub. Some operating systems (OpenBSD, Solaris, Haiku, AmigaOS 4, Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and RHEL) include DejaVu fonts in their default installation,[2] sometimes even using them as their system fonts. These fonts were also included in the proprietary BlackBerry OS since its version 4.5, under the names "BBAlphaSans" and "BBAlphaSerif",[3] until they were replaced in BlackBerry 10 with Slate.[4]

DejaVu Serif Bold was used by designer Jonathan Barnbrook in the promotional and packaging materials for Blackstar, the final album of English musician David Bowie before his death in January 2016.[5][6]

DejaVu Serif DejaVu Sans Mono DejaVu Sans

## Unicode coverage

DejaVu is a project which aims for complete coverage of 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. The coverage is already considerable, although 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.

As of version 2.37, DejaVu Sans included characters from the following Unicode blocks.[7] (The fraction given is the number of characters in each block that is included. DejaVu Serif supports a marginally smaller number of characters.)

### Plane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) Range: 0000-FFFF (0–65,535)

C0 Controls and Basic Latin (95/95) | 100%  | 100

C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement (96/96) | 100%  | 100

Latin Extended-A (128/128) | 100%  | 100

Latin Extended-B (208/208) | 100%  | 100

IPA Extensions (96/96) | 100%  | 100

Spacing Modifier Letters (80/80) | 79%  | 79

Combining Diacritical Marks (112/112) | 83%  | 83

Greek and Coptic (135/135) | 100%  | 100

Cyrillic (256/256) | 100%  | 100

Cyrillic Supplement (48/48) | 79%  | 79

Armenian (91/91) | 96%  | 96

Hebrew (88/88) | 62%  | 62

Arabic (255/256) | 64%  | 64

N'Ko (62/62) | 92%  | 92

Devanagari (128/128) | 92%  | 92

Thai (87/87) | 1%  | 1

Lao (83/83) | 97%  | 97

Georgian (88/88) | 94%  | 94

Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (640/640) | 63%  | 63

Ogham (29/29) | 100%  | 100

Combining Diacritical Marks Extended (31/31) | 48%  | 48

Cyrillic Extended-C (9/11) | 11%  | 11

Phonetic Extensions (128/128) | 83%  | 83

Phonetic Extensions Supplement (64/64) | 59%  | 59

Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement (64/64) | 10%  | 10

Latin Extended Additional (256/256) | 98%  | 98

Greek Extended (233/233) | 100%  | 100

General Punctuation (111/111) | 96%  | 96

Superscripts and Subscripts (42/42) | 100%  | 100

Currency Symbols (33/33) | 84%  | 84

Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols (33/33) | 21%  | 21

Letterlike Symbols (80/80) | 94%  | 94

Number Forms (60/60) | 92%  | 92

Arrows (112/112) | 100%  | 100

Mathematical Operators (256/256) | 100%  | 100

Miscellaneous Technical (256/256) | 53%  | 53

Control Pictures (39/42) | 5%  | 5

Enclosed Alphanumerics (160/160) | 6%  | 6

Box Drawing (128/128) | 100%  | 100

Block Elements (32/32) | 100%  | 100

Geometric Shapes (96/96) | 100%  | 100

Miscellaneous Symbols (256/256) | 74%  | 74

Dingbats (192/192) | 91%  | 91

Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A (48/48) | 19%  | 19

Supplemental Arrows-A (16/16) | 100%  | 100

Braille Patterns (256/256) | 100%  | 100

Supplemental Arrows-B (128/128) | 100%  | 100

Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B (128/128) | 10%  | 10

Supplemental Mathematical Operators (256/256) | 29%  | 29

Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows (253/253) | 17%  | 17

Latin Extended-C (32/32) | 96%  | 96

Georgian Supplement (40/40) | 95%  | 95

Tifinagh (59/59) | 93%  | 93

Cyrillic Extended-A (32/32) | 34%  | 34

Supplemental Punctuation (94/94) | 10%  | 10

Yijing Hexagram Symbols (64/64) | 100%  | 100

Lisu (48/48) | 100%  | 100

Cyrillic Extended-B (96/96) | 34%  | 34

Modifier Tone Letters (32/32) | 62%  | 62

Latin Extended-D (193/199) | 48%  | 48

Latin Extended-E (60/60) | 48%  | 48

Alphabetic Presentation Forms (58/58) | 100%  | 100

Arabic Presentation Forms-A (611/611) | 18%  | 18

Variation Selectors (16/16) | 100%  | 100

Combining Half Marks (16/16) | 25%  | 25

Arabic Presentation Forms-B (141/141) | 100%  | 100

Specials (5/5) | 100%  | 100

### Plane 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP) Range: 10000-1FFFF (65,536–131,071)

Old Italic (36/36) | 97%  | 97

Latin Extended-F (57/57) | 48%  | 48

Tai Xuan Jing Symbols (87/87) | 100%  | 100

Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (996/996) | 12%  | 12

Latin Extended-G (37/37) | 48%  | 48

Cyrillic Extended-D (63/63) | 48%  | 48

Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols (143/143) | 52%  | 52

Domino Tiles (100/100) | 100%  | 100

Playing Cards (82/82) | 72%  | 72

Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (768/768) | 2%  | 2

Emoticons (80/80) | 80%  | 80

## Styles

The 10 styles provided by the original Bitstream Vera fonts have been augmented to 21 styles:

DejaVu Sans | DejaVu Serif | DejaVu Sans Mono

|
|

Book / Oblique | Book / Italic | Book / Oblique
Bold / Oblique | Bold / Italic | Bold / Oblique
Extralight |  |
Condensed / Oblique | Condensed / Italic |
Condensed Bold / Oblique | Condensed Bold / Italic |

Original styles are marked in bold.

## DejaVu Sans Mono

The DejaVu Sans Mono typeface in particular is suitable for technical contexts, since it clearly distinguishes "l" (lowercase L) from "1" (one) and from "I" (uppercase i); also it clearly distinguishes "0" (zero, null) from "O" (uppercase o).[8]

One derivative of the DejaVu Sans Mono typeface, the Menlo typeface, is provided by Apple with the Mac OS X 10.6 operating system. Another is the Hack typeface, which seeks to further-optimize DejaVu Sans Mono for programming, and which is as of 2023 the default monospace font for KDE on openSUSE.

## Stylistic alternates

Variants of the letters ⟨Đ đ⟩, ⟨Ǥ ǥ⟩, ⟨Ŋ⟩, ⟨Ʒ⟩ available in DejaVu Serif. 'Case sensitive' character variants of the Spanish question marks. 'Case sensitive' character variants of the Spanish exclamation marks.

DejaVu fonts support a limited number of character and stylistic variants. DejaVu Serif supports small capitals of Latin and Greek, case-sensitive forms of the Spanish punctuation marks ¿, ¡ (and ⸘), single- and double-loop 'g', and glyph variants of the letters ⟨Đ đ⟩, ⟨Ǥ ǥ⟩, ⟨Ŋ⟩ and ⟨Ʒ⟩.

## See also

* List of typefaces
* Unicode font
* Open-source Unicode typefaces

## Notes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Experimental style

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "DejaVu Fonts — License". https://dejavu-fonts.github.io/License.html.
2. ↑ "Anti-aliasing and TrueType Fonts on OpenBSD". OpenBSD. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/truetype.html#work.
"DejaVu – Download". https://dejavu-fonts.github.io/Download.html.
"DejaVu fonts – FedoraProject". Fedora Project. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DejaVu_fonts.
"Package list – openSUSE". https://en.opensuse.org/Package_list.
"Packages included in Mandriva Linux One 2010". http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Mandriva_Linux_2010#Package_Lists.
3. ↑ Halevy, Ronen (2009-08-07). "Like Those Pretty Fonts in OS 4.5+? Thank Bitstream (Bolt) & DejaVu". http://www.berryreview.com/2009/08/07/like-those-pretty-fonts-in-os-4-5-thank-bitstream-bolt-dejavu/.
4. ↑ Kinsella, Alex (2012-07-24). "Font Changes for BlackBerry 10". http://devblog.blackberry.com/2012/07/blackberry-10-font-changes/.
5. ↑ "Jonathan Barnbrook: David Bowie Blackstar Cover Design" (in ja). https://tokyotypedirectorsclub.org/en/award/2017_drandprix/.
6. ↑ "Bowie Blackstar". https://www.bowieblackstar.net/.
7. ↑ "dejavu-fonts/unicover.txt at version_2_37 · dejavu-fonts/dejavu-fonts". 2016-07-14. https://github.com/dejavu-fonts/dejavu-fonts/blob/version_2_37/unicover.txt.
8. ↑ "Sans serif font survey results". April 2012. http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-SansSerif.shtml.

## External links

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* on GitHub
* Official website-wiki archive The Wayback Machine final crawl before site was shut down
* Shankland, Stephen (2006-07-11). "Open source casts new mold for type design". CNET. http://news.cnet.com/Open-source-casts-new-mold-for-type-design/2100-7344_3-6092398.html.

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Monospaced programming and typewriter fonts

Sans serif|

| Outline|

| Default zero regular|

* Droid Sans Mono
* Everson Mono
* Letter Gothic
* Liberation Mono
* Lucida Console
* Noto Sans Mono
* OCR-A
* OCR-B

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Default zero dotted|

* Andalé Mono
* Cascadia Code
* Cousine
* DejaVu Sans Mono
* Fira Mono
* Hack
* IBM Plex Mono
* Input
* JetBrains Mono
* Overpass Mono
* PragmataPro
* Source Code Pro
* Ubuntu Mono

Default zero slashed|

* Consolas
* Envy Code R
* Fantasque Sans Mono
* Go Mono
* HyperFont
* Inconsolata
* Iosevka
* Luculent
* M+ FONTS
* Menlo
* Monaco
* ProFont
* PT Mono
* Roboto Mono
* San Francisco Mono

Pixel(ized)|

* 3x3
* Fixed
* Fixedsys
* GNU Unifont
* Terminal

Serif|

* IBM Courier
* FreeMono
* Linux Libertine Mono
* Monospace
* Nimbus Mono L
* Prestige Elite
* Tex Gyre Cursor

Samples of monospaced typefaces

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Free and open-source typography

Software and libraries|

* FontForge
* Fontmatrix
* FreeType
* Ghostscript
* HarfBuzz
* Metafont
* MetaPost
* METATYPE1
* Pango
* TeX
* Graphite (SIL)
* ICU

Licenses|

* Apache License
* BSD licenses
* Creative Commons licenses
* GNU General Public License \+ GPL font exception
* GNU Lesser General Public License
* LaTeX Project Public License
* MIT License
* SIL Open Font License
* Ubuntu Font Licence

Operating system,
corporate and
professional|

* Bitstream Charter
* Bitstream Vera
* DejaVu
* Breeze Sans
* Cascadia Code
* Cantarell
* Charis SIL
* Computer Modern
* Concrete Roman
* Courier Prime
* Doulos SIL
* Droid
* Noto
* Open Sans
* Fira Sans
* Ghostscript fonts
* GNU FreeFont
* GNU Unifont
* Hershey fonts
* IBM Plex
* Liberation
* Croscore
* Literata
* Lohit
* Nimbus Mono
* Sans
* Roman
* OCR-A
* OCR-B
* Overpass
* PT Fonts
* Roboto
* Selawik
* Source Code
* Source Han Sans
* Source Han Serif
* Source Sans
* Source Serif
* STIX fonts
* Tiresias
* Ubuntu, Ubuntu Titling
* Utopia
* WenQuanYi
* Zilla Slab

Other
typefaces|

* Amiri
* Antykwa Półtawskiego
* Allerta
* Asana-Math
* Cardo
* Chandas
* Comic Neue
* Cormorant
* EB Garamond
* Gentium
* Inconsolata
* IM Fell
* Jomolhari
* Junicode
* Kochi
* Lato
* Linux Libertine
* M+
* News Cycle
* Open Baskerville
* OpenDyslexic
* Railway Sans
* Squarish Sans CT
* Theano Didot
* XITS

Groups and
people|

* Donald Knuth
* Font Awesome
* Greek Font Society
* Font Library
* Google Fonts
* SIL International

* Open-source Unicode typefaces
* List of open source typefaces
* List of free software Unicode typefaces

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