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Article #620Re: "Universal" font
From: Benoit_Favreault
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:56
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:56
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Hi, Sorry to answer so lately, I'm just coming back home. The closer you can get to a universal font is the DejaVu font project. DejaVu font family is an OpenType (and open source) flavour of the Bitstream Vera fonts. The aim of the project is to improve typographic quality and language coverage. It actually supports a wide portion of the Unicode Latin blocs, and many more. Arabic is partially covered as for Hebrew and many supplements. Few Chinese characters are included for now and there's no Japanese. CJK is on the roadmap. The project site: <http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page> and, for the language coverage: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DejaVu_fonts> BenoοΏ½t Favreault
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