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An oldschool fixed-width pixel font / v1.00
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1. What's this?
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2. Contents
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3. Sizes & display
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4. Formats & encodings
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5. 'Plus' version notes
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6. Bonus DOS stuff
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7. Credits & acknowledgements
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8. Contact
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9. Legal stuff
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1. WHAT'S THIS?
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===============
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BigBlue Terminal is a monospaced pixel font, designed for use in fixed-
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width textual environments (consoles/terminals, text/code/hex editors and
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so on). It follows the metrics and dimensions of Windows' old Terminal
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font (at the 9pt/12px size), but the appearance is closer to the classic
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IBM PC text mode character sets.
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At 8x12 pixels, Terminal is nicely compact and useful, but also kind of
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ugly. Instead, BigBlue Terminal is closely based on IBM's 8x14 EGA/VGA
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charset -- I just like it better. Basically, that font has been squeezed
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and modified to fit into a 8x12-pixel cell. For the extended 'Plus'
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version, many additional Unicode characters have been added to support
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international scripts and symbol sets.
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2. CONTENTS
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===========
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BigBlue_TerminalPlus.TTF BigBlue TerminalPlus
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TrueType font
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Multi-language Unicode character set
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BigBlue_Terminal_437TT.TTF BigBlue Terminal 437TT
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TrueType font
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Codepage 437 (DOS/OEM-US) mapped to Unicode
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Bigblue_Terminal_437BM.FON BigBlue Terminal 437BM
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Windows bitmap format
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Code page 437 (DOS/OEM-US)
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BLUETERM.F12 Raw bitmap font data
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BLUETERM.COM TSR font loader for DOS/VGA
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README.TXT This file
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LICENSE.TXT CC-BY-SA 4.0 license terms
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3. SIZES & DISPLAY
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==================
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3.1. Pixel and point sizes
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The native font size is 8x12. Since this is a pixel font, it'll look
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best at a size of 12 pixels (or integer multiples of 12), whether you're
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using the bitmap or TrueType versions. Otherwise you *will* get fugly
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artifacted scaling.
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On Windows, this translate to 9 pt (at the default screen density of 96
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PPI); on Mac, you'll want 12 pt (72 PPI). Do the math for other screen
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densities. On newfangled super-high-PPI displays, scaling artifacts
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become less apparent, so you may be able to get away with arbitrary
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sizes.
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3.2. Rendering
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Current operating systems usually have subpixel anti-aliasing enabled by
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default: ClearType on Windows, FreeType on Linux, Core Text on Mac OS X.
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This is less than ideal for TrueType pixel fonts, since it may introduce
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a sort of "color fringing" effect in some cases.
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In practice I don't find it *that* noticeable, but it bothers you, you
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can get rid of it. On Windows, turn ClearType off or use the bitmap
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(.FON) version. On Linux, there are ways to disable anti-aliasing for
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specific fonts with FreeType. You'll have to see your docs/the web on
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how to pull that off though.
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4. FORMATS & ENCODINGS
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4.1. BigBlue Terminal 437TT (TrueType, CP437 charset)
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This version features the Codepage 437 character set (DOS/OEM-US). Since
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any TrueType font can (and should) include a Unicode character map, this
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is still a Unicode font, and has multi-platform support as such.
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CP437 can be problematic to map to Unicode, due to characters 00h-1Fh and
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7Fh: they can be interpreted either as control codes, or as graphical
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symbols. Thus there are two 'canonical' Unicode maps for CP437, and
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software that expects one of them may not play nice with the other one.
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This font covers both bases in the same mapping: the problem characters
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are duplicated so that your program will find them at either placement.
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Windows detects the font as an "OEM/DOS" one, and you can use it in any
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program/environment that understands this charset (including the Command
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Prompt). The same will be true on other platforms, as long as your
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software is properly configured -- RTFM, GIYF, etc.
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4.2. BigBlue TerminalPlus (TrueType, extended charset)
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This is more of a "Unicode font" as most people grok the term. On top of
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the CP437 range, this version supports extended Latin, Greek, Cyrillic
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and Hebrew scripts plus a bunch of additional glyphs and Unicode symbols.
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There are 782 characters in total (more than the Windows Glyph List 4 --
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in fact the entire WGL4 range is there). Some were based on various
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international codepages, others were drawn entirely by hand to match the
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visual style. A handful of the cp437 characters had to be remapped (see
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the next section), but they're all still around as well.
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4.3. BigBlue Terminal 437BM (Windows bitmap, CP437 charset)
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A straight bitmap version of the DOS/CP437 charset. This may still be
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more useful than 437TT in certain situations:
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* You don't need to modify the registry to use it in the Command Prompt
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(or any console window).
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* .FON isn't Unicode, so this version can force the CP437 encoding on
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programs like Notepad, which insist on failing miserably otherwise.
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* Bitmap fonts aren't subject to ClearType subpixel anti-aliasing.
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5. 'PLUS' VERSION CHARACTER MAP NOTES
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If you care about this sort of thing, you can use your favorite font
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viewer to see the full character range. Windows has charmap.exe (I like
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SIL ViewGlyph better), OS X has Font Book, etc. A few things that may be
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of interest about the expanded 'Plus' character mapping:
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* Alternate number forms: there's a flat-top "3" mapped to U+01B7
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('Latin capital letter Ezh'), which is more easily distinguished from
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the Cyrillic letter Ze. Also, two alternative zeroes (dotted and
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slashed) are mapped to U+2299 ('circled dot operator') and U+2300
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('diameter symbol') respectively.
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* Cursor shapes: Unicode character U+2581 ('lower one eight block') can
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be used to mimic the classic text-mode cursor appearance. U+2584
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('lower half block') and U+2588 ('full block') could also stand in for
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those respective cursor forms, too.
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* The 'Plus' version includes a full Greek alphabet, which takes over
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the code points that Unicode assigns to the Greek/Math characters from
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DOS codepage 437. Instead of just dropping the CP437 originals, I
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tried to preserve them at remapped code points that make *some* sense.
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Here's what's changed:
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CP437 Canonical mapping from Modified 'Plus' mapping
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Char CP437 to Unicode from CP437 to Unicode
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à (E0h) U+03B1 'Greek small Alpha' U+0251 'Latin small Alpha'
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á (E1h) U+00DF 'Latin small Sharp S' U+03D0 'Greek Beta symbol'
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â (E2h) U+0393 'Greek capital Gamma' U+1D26 'Small capital Gamma'
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ã (E3h) U+03C0 'Greek small Pi' U+1D28 'Small capital Pi'
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ä (E4h) U+03A3 'Greek capital Sigma' U+2211 'N-ary Summation'
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å (E5h) U+03C3 'Greek small Sigma' U+01A1 'Small o with horn'
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ç (E7h) U+03C4 'Greek small Tau' U+1D1B 'Small capital T'
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è (E8h) U+03A6 'Greek capital Phi' U+0278 'Latin small Phi'
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é (E9h) U+0398 'Greek capital Theta' U+03F4 'Capital Theta symbol'
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ê (EAh) U+03A9 'Greek capital Omega' U+2126 'Ohm symbol'
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ë (EBh) U+03B4 'Greek small Delta' U+1E9F 'Latin small Delta'
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í (EDh) U+03C6 'Greek small Phi' U+2205 'Empty set'
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î (EEh) U+03B5 'Greek small Epsilon' U+2208 'Element of'
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6. BONUS DOS STUFF
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Yes, you can get BigBlue Terminal working in actual DOS too, because you
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are just THAT oldschool! The following files will let you do that on any
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VGA-compatible DOS machine (or in DOSBox, PCEm and so on).
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* BLUETERM.COM: a TSR program (courtesy of ripsaw8080) that gives you
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a 640x480 text mode with the 8x12 font -- 80 rows by 40 columns. It
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persists across mode changes, and I find it nice to use in DOSBox,
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since 640x480 is a square-pixel resolution and doesn't get mangled by
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aspect correction.
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* BLUETERM.F12: the raw bitmap font data, usable with any font-loading
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program such as Yossi Gil's LOADFONT (from the widespread FNTCOL16
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archive). You'll typically get the standard 400-line text mode, and
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with a 12-scanline font this gives you 33 rows of text.
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7. CREDITS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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- Fonts, documentation and ASCII logo by VileR.
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THANKS TO:
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- ripsaw8080, for providing the code for the TSR DOS version (and for
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granting permission to include it here)
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- Rebecca G. Bettencourt/Kreative Korp, for responding to my inquiries
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with a surprise open-source release of the awesome Bits'n'Picas bitmap-
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to-outline converter
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TOOLS USED:
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- Bitmap font editing: Fony 1.4.7 by hukka <http://hukka.ncn.fi/?fony>
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- Bitmap-to-outline vectorization: Bits'n'Picas by Kreative Korp
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<https://github.com/kreativekorp/bitsnpicas>
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- TrueType font editing, fine-tuning, re-encoding etc.: FontForge by
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George Williams and the FontForge Project <http://fontforge.github.io/>
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- Windows .TTF testing/viewing: SIL ViewGlyph v1.81.0 by Bob Hallissy/
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SIL International <http://scripts.sil.org/ViewGlyph_home>
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8. CONTACT
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I can be reached at: email - viler -AT- int10h -DOT- org
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www - http://int10h.org
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blog - http://8088mph.blogspot.com
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Spam and/or excessive dumbness will be ignored, deleted, spindled and
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mutilated.
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9. LEGAL STUFF
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BigBlue Terminal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-
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ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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You should have received a copy of the license along with this work. If
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not, see <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/>.
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(c) 2015 VileR
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## Which font?
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### TL;DR
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* Pick your font family:
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* If you are limited to monospaced fonts (because of your terminal, etc) then pick a font with `Nerd Font Mono` (or `NFM`).
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* If you want to have bigger icons (usually around 1.5 normal letters wide) pick a font without `Mono` i.e. `Nerd Font` (or `NF`). Most terminals support this, but ymmv.
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* If you work in a proportional context (GUI elements or edit a presentation etc) pick a font with `Nerd Font Propo` (or `NFP`).
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### Ligatures
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Ligatures are generally preserved in the patched fonts.
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Nerd Fonts `v2.0.0` had no ligatures in the `Nerd Font Mono` fonts, this has been dropped with `v2.1.0`.
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If you have a ligature-aware terminal and don't want ligatures you can (usually) disable them in the terminal settings.
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### Explanation
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Once you narrow down your font choice of family (`Droid Sans`, `Inconsolata`, etc) and style (`bold`, `italic`, etc) you have 2 main choices:
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#### `Option 1: Download already patched font`
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* For a stable version download a font package from the [release page](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases)
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* Or download the development version from the folders here
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#### `Option 2: Patch your own font`
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* Patch your own variations with the various options provided by the font patcher (i.e. not include all symbols for smaller font size)
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For more information see: [The FAQ](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/wiki/FAQ-and-Troubleshooting#which-font)
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