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:wrench: .files, including ~/.macos — sensible hacker defaults for macOS
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Recommend Menloco as a good replacement for Monaco font #783

Open Alhadis opened 7 years ago

Alhadis commented 7 years ago

I couldn't help noticing this in .bash_prompt:

# iTerm → Profiles → Text → use 13pt Monaco with 1.1 vertical spacing.

A while ago I patched the Monaco font to use Menlo's box-drawing glyphs, which vastly improves the appearance of grids and tables in the terminal:

Figure 1: Before and after

Since it's a commercially-licensed typeface, I couldn't upload the modified version without infringing on copyright. So I wrote a FontForge script that actually automates the modifications I made to Monaco... just to have prettier-looking borders. =)

https://github.com/Alhadis/Menloco

I don't know how or where you'd go about mentioning it (or if it's even worth mentioning at all), but I feel like bringing it up - since it's something I know many macOS users would enjoy, haha.

mathiasbynens commented 7 years ago

Woah, nice work @Alhadis!

Nowadays I use Source Code Pro. I should probably update the comment accordingly.

Alhadis commented 7 years ago

Haha, bedankt! :D

I use two fonts, myself. Menloco for terminal, and Menlig for Atom (which is basically Menlo with Hasklig-style ligatures and improved APL symbols). I've yet to write a FontForge script so I can share my work... it's such a pity my preferred coding-fonts are both commercially-licensed typefaces. 😢

Then you quickly become distracted drawing spiffy borders around your code, ending up with ridiculous crap like this: