Editing Bitstream Vera (section)

{{Short description|Typeface series from Bitstream}}
{{Infobox typeface
| name             = Vera Sans
| familyname       = 
| image            = VeraSansSpecimen.svg
| style            = [[Sans-serif]]
| classifications  = [[Sans-serif#Humanist|Humanist]]
| creator          = Jim Lyles
| commissioned_by  = 
| foundry          = [[Bitstream Inc.]]
| foundries        = 
| creationdate     = 2001
| releasedate      = 
| trademark        = 
| metrically_compatible_with = [[Verdana]]
| aka              = Bera
| variations       =
| sample           = 
| shown_here       = 
| sample_fullimage = 
| arabic           =
| cyrillic         =
| devangari        =
| greek            =
| hebrew           =
| ipa              =
| latin            =
| license = Commercial; [[open-source software|open-source]]
}}

'''Vera''' is a digital [[typeface]] ([[computer font]]) [[Font superfamily|superfamily]] with a liberal [[license]]. It was designed by Jim Lyles from the now-defunct [[Bitstream Inc.]] type foundry, and it is closely based on Bitstream Prima, for which Lyles was also responsible. It is a [[TrueType]] font with full [[TrueType#Hinting language|hinting instructions]], which improve its rendering quality on low-resolution devices such as computer monitors. The font has also been repackaged as a [[PostScript fonts#Type 1|Type 1 PostScript font]], called ''Bera'', for [[LaTeX]] users.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/bera/ |title="Bera" font pack for LaTeX |date=2004-09-30 |author1=Rosenau, M |author2=Schmidt, W. }}</ref>

Vera consists of [[serif]], [[sans-serif]], and [[monospaced font|monospace]] fonts. The Bitstream Vera Sans Mono typeface in particular is suitable for technical work, as it clearly distinguishes "l" (lowercase L) from "1" (one) and "I" (uppercase i), and "0" (zero) from "O" (uppercase o), in similar fashion as [[Verdana]] and [[Tahoma (typeface)|Tahoma]] fonts. 

Bitstream Vera Sans is also the default font used by the [[Python (programming language)|Python]] library [[Matplotlib]] to produce plots.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://matplotlib.org/users/dflt_style_changes.html#fonts |title=Matplotlib fonts |date=2017-03-14}}</ref>