DejaVu Serif
Designed By
DejaVu Fonts project
4 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
DejaVu Serif · Regular
Compare this serif family in headings and a continuous reading sample.
4 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download DejaVu Serif ↓TTF · Bitstream Vera License
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
Read the manual before installing
A Page In DejaVu Serif
DejaVu Serif · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.
A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.
4 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Regular400
Read the manual before installing
Italic400
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Bold700
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Bold Italic700
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Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora put DejaVu in their default installs, as do OpenBSD, Solaris, Haiku and AmigaOS 4, and BlackBerry phones carried it from OS 4.5 under the names BBAlphaSans and BBAlphaSerif. Plenty of people have read it without ever picking it.
Its root is Bitstream Vera, a free family with not much past Western European Latin in it. In 2004 Štěpán Roh set out to extend that character set while leaving Vera’s look alone, and over the years the project took in Olwen, Bepa, the SUSE standard fonts and part of the Arev fonts. The serif member now has 3,447 characters, with Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Georgian and Vietnamese next to the Latin, small caps for Latin and Greek, case-sensitive forms of ¿ and ¡, and a choice between single and double-story g.
Version 2.37 from 2016 is still the current release, and in it the team marked the serif Italic and Bold Italic as experimental.
So what is it good for now? Documents that mix alphabets, mostly. A manual with an Armenian or Georgian passage can stay in 1 family from cover to index, and we would take that over a prettier serif that runs out of letters halfway.
Characters & Figures
3,447 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
DejaVu Serif
4 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 783 KB ↓- Version
- 2.37
- License
- Bitstream Vera License
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/dejavu-serif/dejavu-serif.css">
body {
font-family: 'DejaVu Serif', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
DejaVu Serif Heading · Inter Body
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.