The Bitstream VERA font, the first truely crossplatform solution

Mark MacKenzie m.mackenzie at sasktel.net
Sat Feb 7 08:12:37 EST 2004


Just went to Bitstream and searched the whole site and then just within 
the fonts for "Vera" and came up with zero results for the font but 
plenty of hits within news releases.  However, the news releas stuff 
seemed to be useless.

I remain very interested in seeing this font but at the moment can't 
find it.  I will try a www search and see what happens.  Perhaps 
Bitstream as a commercial entity doesn't want too much publicity for a 
free font on its web site.

Mark MacKenzie

opus.species at wanadoo.fr wrote:

>
> Cross platform fonts was a nightmare because there where no free fonts 
> freely avalaible for Windows, Macintosh and Linux.
>
> But thanks to Bitstream, things are changing.
>
> Bitstream decided to deliver freely with a gnu licence the vera font ; 
> it is a full set (serif sans and mono, roman italic and bold) of 
> trueptype fonts. These font are of a very high level of readability, 
> even at 9 or 10 points. They equal or surpasse the best "enhanced 
> screen" font that where already on the market.
>
> These font are freely avalaible for commercial use.
>
> It could an opportunity for Revolution to embedd these fonts in all 
> versions of Revolution.
>
> Claude Lemmel




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