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DejaVu Sans

The DejaVu fonts are derived from the Vera fonts and contain more characters and styles. Other implementations of the Vera fonts are the Bera Fonts.

Text example

DejaVu Sans example
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Usage

\usepackage{DejaVuSans}
%% Another possibility is
%% \usepackage{dejavu}
%% which loads the DejaVu Serif and DejaVu Sans Mono fonts as well
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault} %% Only if the base font of the document is to be sans serif
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

Style examples

\normalfont

DejaVu Sans example

\bfseries

DejaVu Sans example

\itshape

DejaVu Sans example

\bfseries\itshape

DejaVu Sans example

DejaVu Sans number example

Ligatures, German double s, and other special characters

DejaVu Sans ligature example

Font implementation

DejaVu Sans is available as Type 1.
DejaVu Sans is available as OpenType or TrueType.

Part of TeX Live?

DejaVu Sans is part of TeX Live.

Location at

fonts/dejavu/

Last update of this page

2018-09-20