Beautiful fixed-width fonts for OSX

http://monkey.org/~marius/beautiful-fixed-width-fonts-for-osx.html

by mariusae • 17 years ago

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z8000• 17 years ago

This makes me happy.

I tried to make 6x13 for OS X a while back: http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/6x13_redu...

Then I discovered the full set of characters (er, codepoints?) supported and pulled the emergency brake on that idea!

http://rasher.dk/rockbox/fonts/misc/6x13-full.png

Plugawy• 17 years ago

Dominoes!

I know what my next pet-project will be.

jrockway• 17 years ago

Wow, this is the ugliest font I have ever seen. I do like the color-less syntax highlighting, though.

Also, Haskell looks nicer when you translate things like -> to →, \ to λ, and so on.

But really, both of these things would look nicer on high-resolution displays. When can I get a 1200dpi 24" monitor? (In the mean time, you can pry hinting and subpixel anti-aliasing from my cold, dead eyes. It's a necessity on the limited hardware that's currently available.)

tripngroove• 17 years ago

I agree; it's grossly wide and so thin as to be almost illegibly sparkly when it's black-on-white. I don't even want to imagine what this face would look like knocked-out on black.

There's also a good comment on the source page about distinguishing zeros and ohs, especially when coding.

robin_reala• 17 years ago

You can’t get a 1200dpi monitor but you can get a 250+dpi one if you start looking at medical displays. Obviously the more detail, the more accurate the diagnosis. They tend to be greyscale only though, and excitingly expensive ($10k+).

houseabsolute• 17 years ago

A font only a mother could love.

jmatt• 17 years ago

I'd recommend Consolas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas

OS X Install → http://www.wezm.net/2009/03/install-consolas-mac-osx/

With slightly more effort it can be installed on linux.

tsta• 17 years ago

Or DejaVu Sans Mono: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DejaVu_fonts

rbanffy2• 17 years ago

I like the monospaced font (I think it's called "Monospace") that comes with Gnome. And I have a version of Luxi Mono that has a dot in the middle of the 0 so that it's easier to spot it, but I haven't been using it much.

They are both Mac-friendly, AFAIK. Never tried to move them over to a Mac, but they do look good on Gnome/X.

Currently I am using "Envy Code R" as my monospaced font of choice.

And I would love to get screenshots of IBM's 3270 series terminals so I could draw that font as scalable fonts. I love its 6's and 9's.

andrewf• 17 years ago

Monospace under Gnome is, I believe, Vera Sans Mono. Apple ships a slightly tweaked version of this font in 10.6 as "Menlo."

joezydeco• 17 years ago

I'll second the old IBM fetish. I spent so many hours on old IBM PC/RT terminals that I can't stand any other font now. It just feels like a programming font. I even drew a mimic font for MS-DOS.

Vera Sans and Menlo are pretty close.

sunkencity• 17 years ago

I use misc fixed in a smaller size on osx in mrxvt (in X11 of course). Anti-aliasing turned off. 256 color goodness in terminal emacs, yummy. This terminal is incredibly fast (especially with anti-aliasing off), it'll scroll through a big file in the blink of an eye. I dislike having to wait when massive input is scrolling through a terminal. I totally love this setup, only caveat is that I need to attach a mouse to be able to paste into x11.

Here's a link to my .mrxvtrc file http://gist.github.com/277956

JeffJenkins• 17 years ago

I switched over to the Bistream Vera family ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Vera ) since it looked decent and had bold/oblique for the monospace font. I also switched some of my other applications over to use the variable width fonts in the family for consistency.

CitizenKane• 17 years ago

My current favorite monospace font is Incosolata http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html It's an amazingly legible font and looks great and small and large font sizes.

mumrah• 17 years ago

I've been a big fan of Droid Sans Mono for a while now. My preferred coding font: http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/droid-font-family-courtes...

crocowhile• 17 years ago

Terminus is what works for me. Still very clear and nice on the laptop screen. http://fractal.csie.org/~eric/wiki/Terminus_font

Beautiful fixed-width fonts for OSX

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