Whoa, what happened to Monaco 9?
I think they got rid of the screen font. It's just using the outline font now.
Wow. Just… wow.
posted by Peter Hosey on 7/06/2006 09:40:00 PM
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2006-07-06
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11 comments:
I just set TextMate to Monaco 9, non-anti-aliased. Looks like your above screenshot to me. 10.4.7 on Intel.
Speaking of strange fonts, the window title of your OS X shot looks strangely thin. Are you using a theme?
It's Helvetica 12. I decided to use OS X in retro mode for awhile - Helvetica was also the system font in NeXTStep, although it wasn't anti-aliased back then.
So what's going on with your Monaco 9, then? My Monaco 9 also looks like the top window, not the bottom one.
Odd. When you go to Font Book and get info on Monaco, what does it say is its location?
I have duplicate Monaco fonts: one is at /System Folder/Fonts/Monaco (it's from Mac OS 9), version 3.0, and the other is at /System/Library/Fonts/Monaco.dfont , version 5.1d1e1. Even if I disable the Mac OS 9 font, though, I still get text that looks like the top window.
Does this only happen in a specific application, or does it happen across all applications?
My Font Book says Monaco resides in /System/Library/Fonts, where I would expect it to be. When forced to size 9, Font Book also displays Monaco exactly the way I remember it from System 7.
Simone: I think you nailed it. It's only in TextEdit. TextWrangler displays it correctly, and Adium (weirdly enough) displays it correctly except that the lowercase 'o' is squished from its left and right sides.
Weird. Very weird.
Bizarre, because TextEdit is the first app that I opened to test this out, and the font displays correctly for me in TextEdit.
OK, so after doing a bit of searching around, it seems that your "Monaco 9" looks strikingly like my "Andale Mono 10" with antialiasing turned off. Take a look:
Andale Mono 10
It's not an exact match, as you can see some big differences in the symbols and numbers especially (#, *, %, <, >, 0), as well as more minor differences in other characters (my i doesn't have the bottom serif, my m is missing two pixels that yours has, etc). But it does seem to be quite close in overall appearance.
Are you sure you didn't accidentally set the font to Andale Mono?
Yup. I'm not able to reproduce it now, though.
Maybe I passed it to jeff through that screenshot. :D
jeff: Ah.
Random oddness, then.
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