DejaVu fonts

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,{{cite web

|url=http://www.openbsd.org/faq/truetype.html#work

|title=Anti-aliasing and TrueType Fonts on OpenBSD

|series=Frequently Asked Questions

|publisher=OpenBSD

|access-date=2014-04-11

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413141124/http://www.openbsd.org/faq/truetype.html

|archive-date=2014-04-13

}}
{{cite web

| url=https://dejavu-fonts.github.io/Download.html

| title=DejaVu – Download

| access-date=2013-01-16

}}
{{cite web

| url=https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DejaVu_fonts

| title=DejaVu fonts – FedoraProject

| publisher=Fedora Project

| access-date=2013-01-16

}}
{{cite web

|url=https://en.opensuse.org/Package_list

|title=Package list – openSUSE

|access-date=2013-01-16

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130122171007/http://en.opensuse.org/Package_list

|archive-date=2013-01-22

}}
{{cite web

|url = http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Mandriva_Linux_2010#Package_Lists

|title = Packages included in Mandriva Linux One 2010

|access-date = 2013-01-16

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130306014559/http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Mandriva_Linux_2010#Package_Lists

|archive-date = 2013-03-06

}} 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",{{cite web

| url=http://www.berryreview.com/2009/08/07/like-those-pretty-fonts-in-os-4-5-thank-bitstream-bolt-dejavu/

| title=Like Those Pretty Fonts in OS 4.5+? Thank Bitstream (Bolt) & DejaVu

| last=Halevy

| first=Ronen

| date=2009-08-07

}} until they were replaced in BlackBerry 10 with Slate.{{cite web|url=http://devblog.blackberry.com/2012/07/blackberry-10-font-changes/|title=Font Changes for BlackBerry 10|last=Kinsella|first=Alex|date=2012-07-24|access-date=2014-12-23|archive-date=2014-12-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224023633/http://devblog.blackberry.com/2012/07/blackberry-10-font-changes/|url-status=dead}}

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.{{Cite web|title=Jonathan Barnbrook: David Bowie Blackstar Cover Design|url=https://tokyotypedirectorsclub.org/en/award/2017_drandprix/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201220190900/https://tokyotypedirectorsclub.org/en/award/2017_drandprix/|archive-date=2020-12-20|access-date=2020-12-20|website=Tokyo TDC|language=ja}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bowieblackstar.net/|title=Bowie Blackstar|website=www.bowieblackstar.net|access-date=2020-06-27|archive-date=2019-09-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928092215/http://www.bowieblackstar.net/|url-status=dead}}{{failed verification|reason=The citation just to some zip files. You have to download the zip, extract it, and go to Bowie_Blackstar_1.zip/Bowie_Blackstar_1/Γÿà.txt to see where the claim is made. Is there a more accessible source available?|date=June 2020}}

File:DejaVuSerifSpecimen.svg

File:DejaVu Sans Mono.svg

File:DejaVuSans.svg

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, it included characters from the following Unicode blocks.{{cite web

| url=https://github.com/dejavu-fonts/dejavu-fonts/blob/version_2_37/unicover.txt

| title=dejavu-fonts/unicover.txt at version_2_37 · dejavu-fonts/dejavu-fonts

| website=GitHub

| date=2016-07-14

| access-date=2017-02-01}} (The fraction given is the number of characters in each block that are included in the DejaVu fonts.)

{|

| colspan=3 |

|-

| C0 Controls and Basic Latin (95/95) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement (96/96) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| Latin Extended-A (128/128) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| Latin Extended-B (208/208) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| IPA Extensions (96/96) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| Spacing Modifier Letters (80/80) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|79|%|2}}

|-

| Combining Diacritical Marks (112/112) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|83|%|2}}

|-

| Greek and Coptic (135/135) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| Cyrillic (256/256) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| Cyrillic Supplement (48/48) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|79|%|2}}

|-

| Armenian (91/91) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|96|%|2}}

|-

| Hebrew (87/87) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|62|%|2}}

|-

| Arabic (255/256) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|64|%|2}}

|-

| N'Ko (54/59) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|92|%|2}}

|-

| Devanagari (128/128) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|92|%|2}}

|-

| Thai (1/87) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|1|%|2}}

|-

| Lao (67/67) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|97|%|2}}

|-

| Georgian (88/88) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|94|%|2}}

|-

| Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (640/640) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|63|%|2}}

|-

| Ogham (29/29) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| Combining Diacritical Marks Extended (26/31) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|48|%|2}}

|-

| Cyrillic Extended-C (9/11) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|11|%|2}}

|-

| Phonetic Extensions (128/128) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|83|%|2}}

|-

| Phonetic Extensions Supplement (64/64) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|59|%|2}}

|-

| Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement (63/64) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|10|%|2}}

|-

| Latin Extended Additional (256/256) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|98|%|2}}

|-

| Greek Extended (233/233) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| General Punctuation (111/111) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|96|%|2}}

|-

| Superscripts and Subscripts (42/42) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| Currency Symbols (33/33) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|84|%|2}}

|-

| Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols (33/33) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|21|%|2}}

|-

| Letterlike Symbols (80/80) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|94|%|2}}

|-

| Number Forms (60/60) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|92|%|2}}

|-

| Arrows (112/112) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| Mathematical Operators (256/256) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| Miscellaneous Technical (256/256) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|53|%|2}}

|-

| Control Pictures (39/42) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|5|%|2}}

|-

| Enclosed Alphanumerics (160/160) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|6|%|2}}

|-

| Box Drawing (128/128) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| Block Elements (32/32) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| Geometric Shapes (96/96) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| Miscellaneous Symbols (256/256) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|74|%|2}}

|-

| Dingbats (192/192) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|91|%|2}}

|-

| Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A (48/48) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|19|%|2}}

|-

| Supplemental Arrows-A (16/16) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| Braille Patterns (256/256) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| Supplemental Arrows-B (128/128) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B (128/128) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|10|%|2}}

|-

| Supplemental Mathematical Operators (256/256) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|29|%|2}}

|-

| Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows (253/253) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|17|%|2}}

|-

| Latin Extended-C (32/32) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|96|%|2}}

|-

| Georgian Supplement (40/40) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|95|%|2}}

|-

| Tifinagh (59/59) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|93|%|2}}

|-

| Supplemental Punctuation (94/94) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|10|%|2}}

|-

| Yijing Hexagram Symbols (64/64) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| Lisu (48/48) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| Cyrillic Extended-B (96/96) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|34|%|2}}

|-

| Modifier Tone Letters (32/32) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|62|%|2}}

|-

| Latin Extended-D (193/199) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|48|%|2}}

|-

| Latin Extended-E (60/60) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|48|%|2}}

|-

| Alphabetic Presentation Forms (58/58) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| Arabic Presentation Forms-A (108/611) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|18|%|2}}

|-

| Variation Selectors (16/16) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| Combining Half Marks (16/16) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|25|%|2}}

|-

| Arabic Presentation Forms-B (141/141) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| Specials (5/5) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| colspan=3 |

|-

| Old Italic (35/36) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|97|%|2}}

|-

| Latin Extended-F (57/57) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|48|%|2}}

|-

| Tai Xuan Jing Symbols (87/87) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (117/996) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|12|%|2}}

|-

| Latin Extended-G (37/37) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|48|%|2}}

|-

| Cyrillic Extended-D (63/63) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|48|%|2}}

|-

| Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols (143/143) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|52|%|2}}

|-

| Domino Tiles (100/100) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|100|%|2||background:green}}

|-

| Playing Cards (82/82) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|72|%|2}}

|-

| Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (768/768) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|2|%|2}}

|-

| Emoticons (80/80) || style='text-align:right' | {{bartable|80|%|2}}

|}

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

Original styles are marked in bold.

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).{{cite web

|title=Sans serif font survey results

|url=http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-SansSerif.shtml

|date=April 2012

|access-date=October 20, 2012

|url-status=unfit

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120731035604/http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-SansSerif.shtml

|archive-date=July 31, 2012

}}

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 [https://sourcefoundry.org/hack 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.

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• {{official website}}
• {{GitHub|dejavu-fonts/dejavu-fonts|DejaVu fonts}}
• Official website-wiki archive [https://web.archive.org/web/20160902053028/http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page The Wayback Machine] final crawl before site was shut down
• {{cite web

| url=http://news.cnet.com/Open-source-casts-new-mold-for-type-design/2100-7344_3-6092398.html

| title=Open source casts new mold for type design

| last=Shankland

| first=Stephen

| date=2006-07-11

| publisher=CNET}}

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