[Newbies] What font do you use in macOS ?

Nicola Mingotti nmingotti at gmail.com
Sat Dec 7 09:15:37 UTC 2019


Thank you a lot Tobias ! 

bye
nicola


> On Dec 7, 2019, at 12:30 AM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 07.12.2019, at 09:15, Nicola Mingotti <nmingotti at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am quite happy with the font I can get in Unix but, paradoxically enough, I can't get what I want in macOS, where graphics usually is far better.
>> 
>> So, the point is, in macOS the only font I can see well (except for the Accu*) is the "Bitmap DejaVu Sans". I use it usually at "size" 12, but I would like to have it a little smaller, unfortunately the next available size is 9, which is too small for me. 
>> 
>> I tried to read all what I could on the web. As far as I understand Bitmap DejaVu Sans works better because it was "handmade". And for the same reason, to have it at a different pointsize it must be wholly handcrafted again each time.
>> 
>> TTF do not work well because we don't have a renderer inside Squeak, there appear to be external plugins to use Cairo, but I don't find them for macOS. 
>> 
>> (excuse my barbaric approximations, I am totally profane in the world of fonts). 
>> 
>> So my questions are:
>> 
>> What font do you use ? 
>> 
>> Are you able to get something good at different scales ? 
>> I don't need multi-lang stuff, ASCII is enough. 
>> 
>> I could make another pointsize or two for the "Bitmap DejaVu Sans" but I need some point to start, some documentation or example. 
>> 
> 
> Here's a starting point: https://github.com/krono/Squeak-Fonts <https://github.com/krono/Squeak-Fonts>
> That's what I used to generate the current sizes of Bitmap DejaVu Sans.
> 
> Best regards
> 	-Tobias
> 
> 
>> bye
>> Nicola
>> 
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