[squeak-dev] [Newbies] What font do you use in macOS ?

Thiede, Christoph Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de
Sat Dec 7 13:36:24 UTC 2019


It would be great if the Trunk image would contain more sizes of this font by default, perhaps 1 to: 72 by: 1 ...


Or could you maybe provide a dense set of generated PNGs in the release section of your repo? For all the people who don't have a mac :-)


Best,
Christoph
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> On 07.12.2019, at 09:15, Nicola Mingotti <nmingotti at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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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.
>
> (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.
>
> 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
That's what I used to generate the current sizes of Bitmap DejaVu Sans.

Best regards
        -Tobias


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