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Baveuse

July 12, 2010

If the title sounds weird to you, it also does to me. I don’t even know how to pronounce it or say it properly.

Baveuse is actually the name of the font that I currently use for my tech blog’s header image, and I find the font really cool. I used to have it installed on my previous laptop (which died of a black screen defect) that ran on a Windows Vista OS.

Now with the Windows 7 Starter on my netbook, the Baveuse font is not installed, thus I had to do a search online. So glad it is freeware! Thanks to the font author Ray Larabie for sharing it to the public. FYI, font designer Larabie has already created about 383 free fonts from 1996-2001 before designing fonts for commercial use.

I thought Baveuse is just another made-up brand name just like Apidexin, Sinequanone, OshKosh B’Gosh or any of those unusual sounding products. Well, I later learned that Baveuse is a French word. It is actually a cooking term which means moist, runny or undercooked. I still don’t know how to pronounce it though.

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