From: "Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Whats the default font in Acme?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 06:14:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d9a8e87f-5be6-43ea-a76b-b5f9a1785a14@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37089084-b0c4-438b-83e8-9ae3bbc0b013@sirjofri.de>
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021, at 7:14 PM, sirjofri wrote:
>
> On 9front (and maybe on 9legacy?) It's the font you specify with font=,
> which is vga by default.
It's almost always specified with font= so you can `echo $font` to see what it is. (If font isn't set, I think there might be a builtin default of `fixed`.)
As for the actual font, non-9front systems likely have Pelm or Lucida Sans [Mono] for their default font. Lucida is an old bitmap font, not the newer scalable Lucidux Sans. I don't see any sign of Pelm outside Plan 9 circles and I'm sure it's also a bitmap font by design. *However,* a quick web search for `"pelm" font` turned up a Hacker News page with opinions that Lucida Grande is very similar to Lucida, and "Go Mono is closer to (or a remake of) the Pelm font from Plan 9." Both of these are scalable.
The article it's commenting on announces the Go fonts, containing sample images:
https://blog.golang.org/go-fonts
HN subthread with cited/quoted opinions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12973952
HN thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12973716
Personally, I'd like to see a scalable version of the old GEM font, although I liked it more for its style than its readability when I was a teenager. ;)
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-17 19:06 bombart
2021-02-17 19:14 ` sirjofri
2021-02-17 19:38 ` Kurt H Maier
2021-02-17 20:07 ` Kurt H Maier
2021-02-18 0:53 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2021-02-19 6:41 ` Conor Williams
2021-02-18 6:14 ` Ethan Gardener [this message]
2021-02-18 8:31 ` bombart
2021-02-18 9:04 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2021-02-18 11:04 ` Ethan Gardener
2021-02-19 6:32 ` Mark van Atten
2021-02-19 6:44 ` Conor Williams
2021-02-19 6:49 ` Conor Williams
2021-02-20 6:45 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-20 12:04 ` Mark van Atten
2021-02-20 15:26 ` Russ Cox
2021-02-20 17:31 ` Mark van Atten
2021-02-21 1:22 ` Ethan Gardener
2021-02-21 1:27 ` Ethan Gardener
2021-03-07 14:23 ` Mark van Atten
2021-02-20 0:58 ` [9fans] " cigar562hfsp952fans
2021-02-20 3:47 ` [9fans] " Bakul Shah
2021-02-20 4:21 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2021-02-20 4:50 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-20 5:45 ` Mark van Atten
2021-02-18 8:41 ` bombart
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