vjpr / monaco-bold

The Monaco font with a bold variant

Monaco Bold

The Monaco font with a bold variant

Examples

Monaco - Original

MonacoB

MonacoB2

Motivation

My favorite fixed-width programming font is Monaco 10pts. I develop in IntelliJ on OSX which uses boldness as part of its syntax highlighting. Unfortunately Monaco doesn't include a bold variant. Initially I thought it would be easy to find a replacement font with a bold variant, but I was not happy with any of the replacements. Some replacements I looked at were: Consolas, Inconsolata, Droid Sans Mono and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.

The Fonts

I have created three fonts with different weights for the bold variant. You may be asking why I didn't use variants such as Semi-Bold or Extra-Bold. The reason for this is IntelliJ's (and I'm guessing other editors) syntax highlighting doesn't allow creating highlighting rules for font variants other than bold, italic.

• MonacoB - bold (20% transform)
• MonacoBSemi - bolder (30% transform)
• MonacoB2 - boldest (40% transform)

Monaco.dfont is the original font from OSX.

Install

OSX

Drag-drop MonacoB/MonacoB.otf and MonacoB/MonacoB-Bold.otf into Font Book > User or double-click and select Install font from the dialog. Repeat the same for the MonacoB2 folder.

How?

The new fonts were created by transforming height and width of each glyph, and modifying the font meta-data to allow it to be installed side-by-side with the system Monaco.

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The font looks great on OSX - have not tested on Windows.

Hope you like it!

monaco-bold's Issues

FontForge patching issue

Hi, I'm trying to patch the fonts with the FontForge according with this guide:
https://powerline.readthedocs.org/en/latest/fontpatching.html

to be able to use it in Vim with Powerline. But it doesn't work and instead I get this list of issues:

The PostScript font name "MonacoB2 Bold" is invalid.
It should be printable ASCII,
must not contain (){}[]<>%/ or space
and must be shorter than 63 characters
Warning: Mac string is a subset of the Windows string in the 'name' table
 for the UniqueID string in the English (US) language.
Warning: Mac and Windows entries in the 'name' table differ for the
 Fullname string in the language English (US)
 Mac String: MonacoB2 Bold
Windows String: MonacoB-Bold
Warning: Mac and Windows entries in the 'name' table differ for the
 PostScriptName string in the language English (US)
 Mac String: MonacoB2Bold
Windows String: MonacoB-Bold

Original Monaco font is being patched without issues. BTW, I'm using Mac.
Could you happen to know what is the problem?

Any chance of a italic version as well?

Thanks for your work!! I also love Monaco and would be ace to have it with italics too!

Business proposition

Hi buddy,

I am a fellow ruby developer from across the ditch. Could you please flick me an email to [email protected] - I would like to ask you about a business proposal.

Thanks
Nick

PS: Sorry to post it as an issue but your website http://vaughan.io seems to be down and couldn't find your email.

very thin on El Capitan

Just upgraded to El Capitan. Bold isn't working anymore 😢

Bold is working on El Capitan. The problem is that the normal font is now super thin. And Bold thinner than it was before.

keywords like public, void, final, int are bold.

This is how it looked before (lucky I found a screenshot):

As you can see the before image shows more contrast and deeper colors (see Exception)

Can't import bold fonts on Mac (10.7.5)

Hi, thanks for great work with the bold variant of Monaco font. However, I can't make my Mac import it (the *-Bold.otf files). If I drop the files on Font-Book, it raises warning:

which says, that some of the font properties are wrong. If I try to import the font it doesn't appear in the list of my fonts.

How to solve this?

Requires anti-aliasing to be enabled?

I'm running OS X 10.9. I've been using Monaco 10pt in JetBrains PhpStorm and I've always had Anti-Aliasing turned off (Preferences → Appearance → Use anti-aliased font (unchecked)). That gives me a nice crisp look with the default Monaco font:

I was excited to install this Monaco Bold, as that's the one thing I've been missing! However, after installing and selecting MonacoB, my code looks like this:

Terrible! :( I tried turning on anti-aliasing, and it looks better:

But it's not "crisp", the way the default Monaco font looks with anti-aliasing turned off.

Does MonacoB font require anti-aliasing to be enabled? If so, is there any way to support anti-aliasing turned off? (I don't know much about fonts, so I'm not sure if that even makes sense...)

Add support for Windows.

Many developers are stuck with using Windows at work. Need to enhance this Monaco version to support Windows OS.

-- MonacoB at 9 points (No bold):

-- MonacoB2 at 9 points (No bold):

Mark the fonts as Monospace in PANOSE

Hi. Thanks for the fonts. I understand you may not officially support Windows, but marking the fonts as Monospace in PANOSE is easy and important for Windows users. Many application (such as Visual Studio) relies on the value to switch behavior.

The PANOSE number is located in the OS/2 table, offset 0x20. You need to update the 4-th byte (Proportion) from currently 0x00 to 0x09. Also, don't forget to update OS/2 table's checksum (by increasing 9 to the integer).

Alternatively, I can send you the changed files, or allow me to commit directly to the repo. It is up to you.

What do you think?