#bitstream vera

[programmingfonts]

Bitstream Vera Sans derivatives

Bitstream Vera Sans has been released under a license that has allowed others to build on its solid design. One example of this is Menlo, the current default monospaced font for OS X. Menlo also took a lot from the DeJa Vu project. In this project the open source community has expanded the Bitstream Vera Sans font family with thousands of languages and special glyphs, making it one of the most complete font families available.

Check the complete list of derivatives here.

[programmingfonts]

Menlo

Designed, like the Bitstream Vera Mono it was based on, by Jim Lyles, this has been the default programming font for OSX since Snow Leopard. The design seems to have drawn upon the DejaVu project and to be tweaked for rendering on modern OSX systems. Menlo also features a slashed zero (Vera has a dot). It's like the definitive Vera version for OSX, simple and extremely well excecuted.. a good match for a Mac.

By Jim Lyles (2009) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menlo_(typeface)