DejaVu needs a semi-bold weight to accomodate people who feel regular is too thin and people who think bold is too heavy compared to regular
Please make sure that the extra font weights (extra light, semi bold, etc.) map to the 9 steps of boldness defined in CSS. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/fonts.html#font-boldness
We currently have: 200 - ExtraLight 400 - Book 700 - Bold This leaves rooms for 100 (Thin*), 300 (Light), 500 (Medium), 600 (SemiBold), 800 (Black), 900 (ExtraBlack). * Names should not matter, systems that use them in the backend are flawed. http://www.monotypeimaging.com/ProductsServices/pan3.aspx is very useful on the topic. With their WeightRat = CapH / WStem(E) we have: ExtraLight: 14.6 (10 <= WeightRat < 18) -> 300 (Thin) Regular: 7.4 (5.5 <= WeightRat < 7.5) -> 500 (Medium), 0.1 short of being 400 Bold: 3.9 (3.5 <= WeightRat < 4.5) -> 700 (Bold) Legacy systems would need families of 4 styles. We recently split ExtraLight into another legacy family: DejaVu Sans Light. Here's a list of what the families could be: Thin : 100 Light : 200, 300 Regular : 400, 700 - Current default family Medium : 500, 600 - strange family in between Regular and Bold Black : 800, (900*) Anyway, it will take time before anybody seriously starts working on these.
Hirwen Harendal has made some Medium and Semi-Bold variants of Vera, available at http://perso.orange.fr/arkandis/ADF/workshop.htm
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