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Alhadis / Menloco

Replaces the Monaco typeface's box-drawing characters with those from Menlo.
MIT License
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Menloco

Adds seamless box-drawing characters to the Monaco typeface:

Before & after

Instructions

Clone this repo, cd into it, and run make:

git clone git@github.com:Alhadis/Menloco.git
cd Menloco
make

You'll find a copy of the patched typeface sitting in the fonts subdirectory, named Menloco.ttf. Install this at your leisure; running these scripts won't modify any existing typefaces on your system, for self-explanatory reasons.

Requirements

These scripts rely on FontForge to do the heavy lifting, so you'll need to make sure that's installed first. You can install it using Homebrew:

brew install fontforge

Other systems

This project was written with Mac OS in mind (I'm running Mavericks). If you're interested in running it on another operating system, you'll need the following in addition to FontForge:

  1. Perl v5.10+
  2. Python v3.6+
  3. GNU Make

For Windows/Cygwin, I have no idea. Have a crack at it and report any troubles.

Why?

I love the clean elegance of Monaco, but wanted nicer-looking graphs and tables when perusing terminal output. Programs like npm and tree, for example, use box-drawing symbols to annotate the relationships between their contents; these look weird when they're punctuated with gaps.

Wanting the best of both worlds, I penned these scripts to bring them together. Obviously I could simply upload the modified typeface, but that'd be infringing copyright. Since both fonts are already installed on Mac OS by default, it's an easy matter of running the bundled scripts with make.