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

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Sat Dec 7 16:12:07 UTC 2019


> On 07.12.2019, at 14:36, Thiede, Christoph <Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
> 
> It would be great if the Trunk image would contain more sizes of this font by default, perhaps 1 to: 72 by: 1
> ...

If only "that" wouldn't take up so much money

> 
> 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 :-)

Err. I am unsure whether the licenses permit that and I have no time to check.
but per se, sureā€¦

Best regards
	-Tobias

> 
> Best,
> Christoph
> Von: Beginners <beginners-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de>
> Gesendet: Samstag, 7. Dezember 2019 09:30:23
> An: A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questions about Squeak.
> Betreff: Re: [Newbies] What font do you use in macOS ?
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> 
> > 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
> That's what I used to generate the current sizes of Bitmap DejaVu Sans.
> 
> Best regards
>         -Tobias
> 
> 
> > bye
> > Nicola
> > 
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