The DejaVu fonts are derived from the Vera fonts and contain more characters and styles. Other implementations of the Vera fonts are the Bera Fonts.
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\usepackage{DejaVuSans} %% Another possibility is %% \usepackage{dejavu} %% which loads the DejaVu Serif and DejaVu Sans Mono fonts as well \renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault} %% Only if the base font of the document is to be sans serif \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\normalfont
\bfseries
\itshape
\bfseries\itshape
DejaVu Sans is available as Type 1.
DejaVu Sans is available as OpenType or TrueType.
DejaVu Sans is part of TeX Live.
2018-09-20