Adds seamless box-drawing characters to the Monaco typeface:
Clone this repo, cd into it, and run make:
git clone git@github.com:Alhadis/Menloco.git
cd Menloco
make
You'll find a copy of the patched typeface sitting in the fonts subdirectory,
named Menloco.ttf. Install this at your leisure; running these scripts won't
modify any existing typefaces on your system, for self-explanatory reasons.
These scripts rely on FontForge to do the heavy lifting, so you'll need to make sure that's installed first. You can install it using Homebrew:
brew install fontforge
This project was written with Mac OS in mind (I'm running Mavericks). If you're interested in running it on another operating system, you'll need the following in addition to FontForge:
- Perl v5.10+
- Python v3.6+
- GNU Make
For Windows/Cygwin, I have no idea. Have a crack at it and report any troubles.
I love the clean elegance of Monaco, but wanted nicer-looking graphs and tables
when perusing terminal output. Programs like npm and tree, for example, use
box-drawing symbols to annotate the relationships between their contents; these
look weird when they're punctuated with gaps.
Wanting the best of both worlds, I penned these scripts to bring them together.
Obviously I could simply upload the modified typeface, but that'd be infringing
copyright. Since both fonts are already installed on Mac OS by default, it's an
easy matter of running the bundled scripts with make.