Nov 01 2006
New Version of Monaco Font
I’ve recently been sent newer version of the Monaco font and so I decided to put it on-line. The version number of the previous font I hosted was 2.0 but this new version is 5.1d1e1. I’m not sure how the new version differs but I’m told its from a new Mac Book Pro.
I’ve also noticed on several forums that people have said that the version I’m hosting isn’t quite the same as the version on the Macs. This, I believe is because the Mac version of the font contains more information about how the font should behave than is contained in the standard True Type Font. That said, this is as close as you;re going to get to the original Apple Monaco font.
Update: Several people have commented that the above version of Monaco does not render correctly on Linux. Thankfully, someone has sent me a copy which does render on Linux, however, it does not render correctly under Windows. You can now download the Linux version. Windows user should continue to use the version about.
Please note that this font is provided as is. I have not tested the font myself, I am merely providing it to you as it was sent to me.
Downloads:
Info:
If you like Monaco, you might also want to check out Envy Code R (preview release 6) from DamienG.
Thanks, much appreciated! I just went for the old version as I saw this post a little later.
Yeah, it’s true, the font looks a lot better on a mac
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/As2_bounceball.png
That’s what I was going for…
Man, I’ve got to get me a Mac
Thanks, the older version doesn’t work on Windows Vista but this one works. I like
Monacobetter than Microsoft’sConsolasfont.Hi! Unfortunately the file seems to be corrupted (has some PHP warnings inside the font!). Could you please correct your download script? Thanks!
Monaco’s a truly great font for programming! Could you fix the link so that it can be downloaded without being corrupt?
Thanks for pointing out the broken download. Its now been fixed so please try again.
Hi again! I still can’t download the font… :/
The PHP error inside the font is this (repeated every 2.048 bytes, which is probably the buffer size you’re using): “Notice: Only variable references should be returned by reference in /usr/home/gringod2/public_html/tracker/download/HTTPDownload.php on line 232″.
Does this help in solving the problem?
I’ve just tried downloading it myself and I didn’t get any such problem. Can you make sure you clear your browser cache (just in case) and download it again.
Ok, I finally got it! Just cleared the cache before trying again and it worked. Thanks!
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This font doesn’t quite work in Linux. It seems that the line-height is cut in half so display of it is corrupted. I extracted a .ttf from the Monaco.dfont file on my MacBook using fondu and it works perfectly. If you’d like that one instead, let me know.
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Ian, I’m having the same problem with rendering in Linux. Can you send me a copy of your TTF file? diwaker AT floatingsun.net — thanks!
The new version of the font does not appear to be monospaced
I’m using it in Visual Studio, ClearType on, size 10
and the word “finish” is just as wide as “start”
Sorry, apparently the letters ‘f’ and ‘i’ are merged together in VisualStudio – notepad renders it ok.
It gets stranger because if I move the caret with the arrow keys it jumps over both letters at once. Really weird.
Hi Eugen,
Which font are you using on windows? If you downloaded the Linux one then yes, I know about that. If it is the previous one then that is something I was not aware about and will have a look into it.
I have an extremely annoying thing in Eclipse with monaco under linux: bold letters are wider than regular. actually, it looks like Linux (ubuntu, fiesty) treats Monaco as regular, not monospaced font. I can send a screenshot, if it is not clear from this post.
I’ve googled quite much about this but had no luck
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Consolas is ugly, i normally use something else.
This is far by the best ive seen, so easy to read
and looks cool too.
Ben
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Can you upload a screenshot, please? I think it’s not rendering correctly here (Linux). Thank you in advance.
This is great, thanks!
Monaco font looks quite big compared to other native windows fonts (e.g. Consolas) at the same size (e.g. 8 pt). Similary it looks bigger than a similarly sized Monaco font on Mac. Is there any font which is smaller in size compared to the one you have uploaded.
@Sandesh: That is probably because Monaco has been designed to work perfectly for MacOS. There are differences in the rendering between Windows and MacOS which is why you are experiencing the apparent difference in sizes.
But, but, this is NOT the monospaced Monaco that Macs have!! Its primary use IS for coding! Is there a monospaced version for Windows?
This IS the font file from Apple. The trouble is that MacOS and Windows have different ways of laying out fonts. The Monaco font has been optimised to be rendered using MacOS and IS NOT designed for working with Windows.
Whilst it will still rendered under Windows there will be some irregularities between what you get on a Mac and what you get under Windows.
My friend DamienG has a post with some information on this: http://damieng.com/blog/2007/06/13/font-rendering-philosophies-of-windows-and-mac-os-x
but that is only the tip of the iceberg.
I guess you’re right, as far as the regular Monaco is concerned, it is monospaced. However, since there is no separate bold, italic, bold-italic font file, when using an IDE all these different font types (used e.g. for Java keywords, static fields etc) do not align with the characters from the regular font. I guess the Mac font does have a bold etc version so that all characters, regular or not, take up the same space, thus making Monaco suitable for use in IDEs. So my question is, is there a way to produce a bold, italic, bold-italic font version that has the same space requirements per character as the normal one? I tried using FontCreator’s Glyph Transformer, preserving side bearings, but the resulting characters ended up using more space than the regular ones…
Thanks!!!!!!!!!
Now the font works perfectly on linux!!!!
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There was a flaw – letters ‘fi’ and ‘fl’ was joined automatically into one position. It shows under Eclipse for Windows.
I deleted some optional hinting tables, now it’s ok.
Hello Thanks Gringod.
I got a problem with the font now. i was using it without any problem. anyway, suddenly the font is turned into ugly. see following picture
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/8597/20090524084123456×360sc.png
when the size is 8, it looks ugly, and when it’s 9, you can notice that the font too big. :S look like it is getting a rendering problem again in linux.
what could be the cause? because i am using newer version of xorg? here is xorg 1.6. or my font setting?
thanks
I realy like this font for code view in Visual Studio better then the ogly Courier new font
Thanks champ much appreciated
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Thank you so much for this! I have been looking for this for a while now!
Does anybody have a version with ‘fi’ and ‘fl” flaw fixed?
Could you upload this font with version number, like in a targz file ?
It would be much easier to make from it a packge with version tracking.
This is my archlinux package for this font:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29112
Please consider my requirement
Thanks, anyway.
very good font indeed, thanks for it.
Very usefull! Large thanks!
Thanks! Works fine in Ubuntu the Linux version of the font. Very useful!!!
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This version of Monaco has ligatures (at least in Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 7), which means that letter pairs like “fi” and “fl” are rendered as a single special character, which takes a single letter width.
Sticking with Monaco version 2.0 that doesn’t have ligatures.
Thanks for {post,host}ing this font, very crisp and clean the way it should be. I’ve tried this font before, but it’s always rendered poorly on Linux for me. The font you’re hosting (for Linux) worked great!