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Font "Terminal" for OSX?

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ilnyckyj

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Does anyone know if there is a font equivalent to the "Terminal" font which is included with Windows?
 
ilnyckyj said:
Does anyone know if there is a font equivalent to the "Terminal" font which is included with Windows?
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Do you have a screen shot of this font. Many people here hasn't got a PC, and I, at least, don't remember how the font in Windows command windows look like... :)

You might try Courier (like beige matchbox suggested) or Courier New... :)

...or maybe VT100, the ultimate Terminal font... :p
 
Mitthrawnuruodo said:
Do you have a screen shot of this font. Many people here hasn't got a PC, and I, at least, don't remember how the font in Windows command windows look like... :)

You might try Courier (like beige matchbox suggested) or Courier New... :)

...or maybe VT100, the ultimate Terminal font... :p
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It's not actually the font used in the microsoft terminal, the font name itself is terminal.
 
ilnyckyj said:
It's not actually the font used in the microsoft terminal, the font name itself is terminal.
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A link or a screen shot would still be helpful, as I don't remember the font, and I have tried Googling it and can't find it.
 
Why do you want it? It sounds like a horrible font choice for anything. Here's a quote from the page you linked to: "Terminal looks very different at different point sizes. Shown here are 9, 12, and 14 points."

terminal9.gif


terminal12.gif


terminal14.gif
 
gekko513 said:
Why do you want it? It sounds like a horrible font choice for anything. Here's a quote from the page you linked to: "Terminal looks very different at different point sizes. Shown here are 9, 12, and 14 points."
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I want it to view ascii art, specifically block art. The terminal font has special characters that look like this in a normal font: € ‹ ± but in terminal they look like solid blocks, and can eventually form pictures:

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/commun/screenshots/scrsh_asciiArt2.gif

So, i want to be able to look at the art in textedit, but i need the Terminal font to view it properly. I don't know of any other fonts that display those characters as blocks, but if one exists already for OS X, that would suffice.
 
ilnyckyj said:
Does anyone know if there is a font equivalent to the "Terminal" font which is included with Windows?
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The "Terminal" font is a bitmapped font. Bitmapped fonts have various problems with the text quality. In particular, the characters often end up having jagged lines. This is possibly the effect that you like about the terminal font in Windows.

As other posters have suggested, VT100 is a font on OS X that is similar. Otherwise you could use Courier. I thought VT100 was installed during the OS X install. I selected the install additional fonts option while installing OS X so maybe this option is the source of VT100.
 
VT100 was a font that came with old Mac OS (pre-X). If you have Classic installed, you'll find it as System Folder:Fonts:VT102Font. You should be able to use Font Book or whatever font futility you prefer to get it active under OS X.
 
iMeowbot said:
VT100 was a font that came with old Mac OS (pre-X). If you have Classic installed, you'll find it as System Folder:Fonts:VT102Font. You should be able to use Font Book or whatever font futility you prefer to get it active under OS X.
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heh, and if we don't have classic installed?

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I found the font i was looking for, however, it's only available as a .fon file. Anyone know how to convert that to something usable in OS X?

http://www.hassings.dk/lars/fonts.html
 
ilnyckyj said:
heh, and if we don't have classic installed?

You could use Pacifist to extract the VT102 font suitcase from the Classic installer (on your restore disks) and then copy it into your font folder. I think the font will just work.

Also, if you have the .fon file and access to a windows machine then you can use something like "Font Fitting Room" to convert the .fon to a .ttf. .ttf is a Windows font format that OS X can use.
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I was looking for examples of ASCII art using extended/high/block/whatever ascii, but I can't find any. Do you have links to any examples?

All I could find was this.
There is another character set which consists of the ASCII character set
with another 128 characters (128-255), for special characters such as the
copyright symbol and various accented letters. Some people have
inaccurately called this set "extended ASCII" or "high ASCII". These higher
number coded characters are assigned to variable sets of characters by
computer manufacturers and software developers. You should **NOT**
use these characters in ASCII art, though, because they are not
standardized -- even though the addition of more characters offers an
opportunity for more flexibility in creating an ASCII picture, it really
decreases the number of people who can properly view your creation. This
defeats the purpose of the universalitality of ASCII art.
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gekko513 said:
Not to a gif image, to some real ascii art in .txt or similar.
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Technically this is ANSI art.
 
Through slashdot, i found some people who were having the same problems as me. They wanted to use old BBSs that had ANSI art games and art, but didn't have the fonts to do it. One guy found this:

http://www.apollosoft.de/ASCII/indexen.htm

I downloaded and installed the font that came with it (ASCII.tff) using Font Book. It installed fine, it's in my Library/Fonts folder, and it shows up in Font Book. Preview works, along with everything else. However, the font doesn't show up in any applications. Which means even though I now have the font I need, I can't use it. The font IS activated in Font Book, and I can't figure out why it's not working in actual applications.
 
I think that somehow that font didn't include a name. Installing it using Linotype FontExplorer, it ended up with the name "New". Odd.
 
iMeowbot said:
I think that somehow that font didn't include a name. Installing it using Linotype FontExplorer, it ended up with the name "New". Odd.
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damn, i installed it with that, and it's still not displaying like it should. In the preview in Font Book, it has the block characters, you can see them. However, they're not dispalying, and I can't figure out why.
 
Nermal said:
You have that backwards. TrueType (ttf) is a Mac format that Windows can use.
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Fair enough. My bad. I wasn't sure if Microsoft had used a proprietary format to represent TrueType fonts as .ttf files.
 
iMeowbot said:
I think that somehow that font didn't include a name. Installing it using Linotype FontExplorer, it ended up with the name "New". Odd.
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Does yours show up with the white icon in FontExplorer? Every other font I have has the icon in blue, and I don't know why this one isn't.
 
mrichmon said:
Fair enough. My bad. I wasn't sure if Microsoft had used a proprietary format to represent TrueType fonts as .ttf files.
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You might be right there, ttf might be a Microsoft implementation of TrueType. I'd never considered that before.
 
ilnyckyj said:
Does yours show up with the white icon in FontExplorer? Every other font I have has the icon in blue, and I don't know why this one isn't.
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blue icons are for system fonts (in /Library etc.) and white ones are user fonts (i.e. under your home etc.)
mrichmon said:
Fair enough. My bad. I wasn't sure if Microsoft had used a proprietary format to represent TrueType fonts as .ttf files.
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OS X should be happy with either flavor. I think that this particular font is just poorly encoded.

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Okay, I've got it working. In terminal I set the font to "New", and then I went in to the inspector (Terminal->Window Settings) and set the Character Set Encoding to Western (Windows Latin 1). The exact charset may not be too important, as long as it's not UTF-8. I'm then able to cat files I downloaded from http://artscene.textfiles.com/ansi/bbs/ and, oddly, get better renderings of those files than the images on that page show :)
 
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