Typophile

Bitstream Vera in Medium Weight

yury90

Hi everyone,

If the following Bitstream’s Vera font (please see below image) is said as Roman weight, can anyone please tell me where I can get/purchase the original/genuine Bitstream’s Vera font in Medium weight?

Thanks in advance

Yury

http://i45.tinypic.com/2dh7mn5.png

Si_Daniels

Vera is a renamed open source version of Bitstream Prima. Doesn’t look like there was a medium...

http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/prima-sans/

Fontgrube

“closely based on Bitstream’s Prima”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Vera

AFAIK you are allowed, according to the Vera font license, to make your own medium weight, as long as you don’t call it Vera $SOMETHING. The Fontographer “Blend Fonts” feature comes in handy for that (use normal and bold weight). Check your Vera license to see exactly what you are allowed to (IANAL). Andreas

Riccardo Sartori

Better yet, you could do it with Deja Vu Sans (another Vera derivative http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DejaVu_fonts) and share it back with the world! :-)
That said, you can try to obtain a “medium” look just adding a thin stroke to the regular weight using the desktop publishing app of your choice.

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