The Bitstream Vera TTF font family has gone AWOL in the upgrade to X.Org R7.4 (it was previously contained in the xorg-x11-fscl package)
The font is available for download at http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ 'The fonts have a generous copyright, allowing derivative works (as long as "Bitstream" or "Vera" are not in the names), and full redistribution (so long as they are not *sold* by themselves). They can be be bundled, redistributed and sold with any software.' Proposed setup.hint: category: X11 requires: fontconfig mkfontdir mkfontscale sdesc: "Bitstream Vera font family" ldesc: "The Bitstream Vera fonts (http://gnome.org/fonts/)." Files: http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/release/font-bitstream-vera-ttf/font-bitstream-vera-ttf-1.10-1-src.tar.bz2 http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/release/font-bitstream-vera-ttf/font-bitstream-vera-ttf-1.10-1.tar.bz2 http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/release/font-bitstream-vera-ttf/setup.hint Other notes: If possible, the stub xorg-x11-fscl package should be amended to pull this package in on upgrade. It's worth double-checking I've done the packaging correctly. I did it in a hurry and I'm not an expert.