Re:Apple Menlo: Snow Leopard's New Console Font
by kevbin on Thursday June 11, 2009 @09:58PM
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"Just a tweak" minimizes the work necessary to make typefaces (especially monospaced typefaces) produce good results. The hinting in Menlo seems to produce really good on-screen results on my Mac; preferable to Consolas, Liberation, BVSM, Pragmata, etc.
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Re:Apple Menlo: Snow Leopard's New Console Font
by tptacek on Thursday June 11, 2009 @11:08PM
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Not to disparage the people who worked hard on hinting Menlo, but I'm not sure that's work comparable to designing an entire major face family.
Re:Apple Menlo: Snow Leopard's New Console Font
by kevbin on Friday June 12, 2009 @01:08AM
(#654216)
It's a different kind of work. I've purchased several typefaces with beautiful letterforms that are useless for coding on my mac because they are not hinted or hinted poorly. A couple more have really bad metrics that the "height"/"width" sliders can't really compensate for in the terminal.