[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:
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>> On 07.12.2019, at 09:15, Nicola Mingotti <nmingotti at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> (excuse my barbaric approximations, I am totally profane in the world of fonts).
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>> So my questions are:
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>> What font do you use ?
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>> Are you able to get something good at different scales ?
>> I don't need multi-lang stuff, ASCII is enough.
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>> I could make another pointsize or two for the "Bitmap DejaVu Sans" but I need some point to start, some documentation or example.
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> 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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