Fixedsys 9 Comparable Font For Mac Terminal?
January 13, 2005 11:03 PM Subscribe
Font search! My favorite font for use with the putty SSH client on a Windows machine is fixedsys 9. I'd love to find a version of this font that I can use with Terminal on my Macs at home - but so far I've been unable to find one.
fixedsys.org supposedly had a version at one time, but what they've got available now looks horrible in Terminal (after adding it to the system w/Font Book). Any suggestions?
fixedsys.org supposedly had a version at one time, but what they've got available now looks horrible in Terminal (after adding it to the system w/Font Book). Any suggestions?
Response by poster: Should have mentioned that the ProgrammerFonts wiki was one place I looked through before posting this question. Thanks, though.
posted by mrbill at 11:13 PM on January 13, 2005
posted by mrbill at 11:13 PM on January 13, 2005
How badly do you want it? For $97, TransType should be able to convert it for you. Or you can use their free demo if a "TR logo [added] to some glyphs" is acceptable.
posted by nakedcodemonkey at 11:21 PM on January 13, 2005
posted by nakedcodemonkey at 11:21 PM on January 13, 2005
Best answer: If you fancy something different then check out this site which compares fixed width fonts. Unfortunately it is running with a 500 internal server error right now but hopefully will be back up soon.
I have both bitstream vera and monaco installed and they're great with PuTTY.
posted by ralawrence at 1:39 AM on January 14, 2005
I have both bitstream vera and monaco installed and they're great with PuTTY.
posted by ralawrence at 1:39 AM on January 14, 2005
Response by poster: I'm using the default of Monaco 10 on Terminal.app right now, but I much prefer Fixedsys. I'll look at Bitstream Vera, though.
posted by mrbill at 6:35 AM on January 14, 2005
posted by mrbill at 6:35 AM on January 14, 2005
If the one you downloaded is similar to this version then it looks like crap in anything smaller than 15 pt.
posted by O9scar at 8:35 AM on January 14, 2005
posted by O9scar at 8:35 AM on January 14, 2005
I use Osaka Regular-Mono at 9 pts. Very small, very readable. I believe it comes with the OS.
posted by Mo Nickels at 12:26 PM on January 14, 2005
posted by Mo Nickels at 12:26 PM on January 14, 2005
There's a free font utility called FontForge that might, possibly, maybe, be able to convert it for you for the grand total of... $0. :-)
I've used FontForge to fix corrupted TTF files before, and to convert from TTF to OTF before without trouble. Oh, as a bonus, it's an editor, too. This was when it was called pfaedit. Now it looks even better.
It accepts and spits out many formats:
I've used FontForge to fix corrupted TTF files before, and to convert from TTF to OTF before without trouble. Oh, as a bonus, it's an editor, too. This was when it was called pfaedit. Now it looks even better.
It accepts and spits out many formats:
An outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, cid-keyed, multi-master, cff, svg and bitmap (bdf) fonts, or edit existing ones. Also lets you convert one format to another. FontForge has support for many macintosh font formats.posted by shepd at 3:18 PM on January 14, 2005
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posted by AlexReynolds at 11:09 PM on January 13, 2005