Bitstream Vera
Bitstream · Jim Lyles · 2003
Jim Lyles's open source humanist superfamily covering sans, serif and mono variants, optimised for screen and foundational to the DejaVu project.
About
Bitstream Vera is a three-family humanist superfamily released under a permissive open source licence in 2003. Jim Lyles built the design with full TrueType hinting for strong screen rendering, and the monospaced variant clearly distinguishes confusable characters like l and 1. Bitstream Vera Sans is the default font in Python's Matplotlib, and the expanded DejaVu project extends its glyph coverage substantially.
Classification
Humanist sans-serif superfamily covering sans, serif and monospaced variants. Released in 2003 under a liberal open source licence (created 2001). Full TrueType hinting for screen rendering. ~300 glyph coverage. Default font in Python's Matplotlib library. Parent of the DejaVu fonts project.