ProFont is a
monospace
A monospaced font, also called a fixed-pitch, fixed-width, or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space. This contrasts with variable-width fonts, where the letters and spaci ...
font
In metal typesetting, a font is a particular size, weight and style of a ''typeface'', defined as the set of fonts that share an overall design.
For instance, the typeface Bauer Bodoni (shown in the figure) includes fonts " Roman" (or "regul ...
available in many formats. It is intended to be used for programming in
IDE environments and it is available in
bitmap
In computing, a bitmap (also called raster) graphic is an image formed from rows of different colored pixels. A GIF is an example of a graphics image file that uses a bitmap.
As a noun, the term "bitmap" is very often used to refer to a partic ...
and
TrueType
TrueType is an Computer font#Outline fonts, outline font standardization, standard developed by Apple Inc., Apple in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe Inc., Adobe's PostScript fonts#Type 1, Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. It has become the ...
versions for various
platforms.
Originally developed as
shareware
Shareware is a type of proprietary software that is initially shared by the owner for trial use at little or no cost. Often the software has limited functionality or incomplete documentation until the user sends payment to the software developer. ...
by Andrew Welch
for the
Apple Macintosh
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in TrueType format, ProFont was intended to have metrics identical with Apple's default
Monaco
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font—resulting in an 80-column by 25-line display in a
Compact Macintosh
A Compact Macintosh (or Compact Mac) is an all-in-one Apple Mac computer with a display integrated in the computer case, beginning with the original Macintosh 128K. Compact Macs include the original Macintosh through to the Color Classic sold ...
full screen window—but with additional features desirable for programming, such as a
slashed zero
The slashed zero, , is a representation of the Arabic digit zero ("0") with a slash (punctuation), slash through it. This variant zero glyph is often used to distinguish the digit zero from the Latin script letter O anywhere that the distinctio ...
and easily distinguished
curly brackets. ProFont was bundled with the
BBEdit
BBEdit is a Proprietary software, proprietary text editor made by Bare Bones Software, originally developed for Macintosh System 6, System Software 6, and currently supporting macOS.
History
The first version of BBEdit was created as a "bare bon ...
text editor.
References
External links
ProFont for Windows, Mac, LinuxCyrillic ProFontProFont ("Orp") for X11/xterm as BDF/PCF
Monospaced typefaces
Computer-related introductions in 1986
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