Andalé Mono (for technical reasons also Andale Mono) is a

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sans-serif

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for terminal emulation and software development environments, originally for the

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project by

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and

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. Andalé Mono has a sibling called Andalé Sans.

IBM's legacy

The character set and design choices of Andalé Mono reveal its origin as a custom font for the Apple and IBM joint project Taligent. The character set includes many IBM specific symbols from IBM Courier, published in 1991. Some characters, like the card symbols, have even identical outlines. Also the dotted zero, which seems to have originated as an option on

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displays, is included in both fonts.

Distribution

Andalé Mono was first distributed as an Internet Explorer 4.0 add-on, originally under the name Monotype.com. Starting with version 1.25 of the font, it was renamed to Andale Mono, and distributed with Internet Explorer 5 and 6. Andalé Mono is no longer distributed with modern versions of

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(from

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/ ME onwards), having been replaced by Lucida Console. It is still available for download as part of the

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package on

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and it is bundled with

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Retail versions

The Andale Mono typeface family sold by Ascender Corporation includes bold and

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variants, in TrueType format. This version supports the WGL character set. Andalé Mono is also sold by Monotype, it does not include italics, and does not support Greek, Cyrillic, and most Latin Extended-A/B characters found in the Ascender version. It is available in OpenType CFF, TrueType, PostScript formats. However, Monotype has also produced language-specific variants of Andalé Mono in

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(Andalé Mono Cherokee), Cyrillic (Andalé Mono Cyrillic), Greek (Andalé Mono Greek), Hebrew (Andalé Mono Hebrew) character sets.

Andale Mono WT

Andale Mono WT is a variant supporting all characters mapped by Unicode 3.0 code points. The WT stands for ''WorldType''. This family contains Andale Mono WT J, Andale Mono WT K, Andale Mono WT S, Andale Mono WT T, which include glyphs for Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese environments, respectively. Andale Mono WTG, Andale Mono WTG Surrogate are fonts supporting Unicode 3.2 code points, with Andale Mono WTG Surrogate supporting characters outside U+FFFF code points. Retail versions of Andale Mono WT fonts are sold under the name ''Unicode Font Package for SAP'' by

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and ''KYOmulticode 1.0'' by

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. A raster version of Andale Mono WTG is shipped with FontLab Studio 5.

References

External links

*Monotype Andalé Mono
CherokeeCyrillicGreekHebrewAndale Mono font information
(Microsoft typography)
Unicode programmer font
*Andale Mono WT
JapaneseSimplified Chinese
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