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The Free UCS Outline Fonts [1] (also known as freefont) is a font collection project. The project was started by Primož Peterlin and is currently administered by Steve White. The aim of this project has been to produce a package of fonts by collecting existing free fonts and special donations, to support as many Unicode characters as possible.
This list of fonts contains every font shipped with Mac OS X 10.0 through macOS 10.14, including any that shipped with language-specific updates from Apple (primarily Korean and Chinese fonts). For fonts shipped only with Mac OS X 10.5, please see Apple's documentation.
FontForge is a FOSS font editor which supports many common font formats. Developed primarily by George Williams until 2012, FontForge is free software and is distributed under a mix of the GNU General Public License Version 3 and the 3-clause BSD license. [2]
In addition to the data-fork version of TrueType and the Adobe/Microsoft OpenType fonts, Mac OS X also supports Apple's own data-fork-based TrueType format, called data-fork suitcases with the filename extension .dfont. Data-fork suitcases are old-style Mac TrueType fonts with all the data from the resource fork transferred unchanged to the ...
The font comes pre-installed with all Microsoft Windows versions since Windows 98. A nearly identical font, called Lucida Grande, shipped as the default system font with Apple's Mac OS X operating system, until switching to Helvetica Neue in 2014 with OS X Yosemite; Lucida Grande added support for Arabic and Thai scripts.
Typeface Family Spacing Weights/Styles Target script Included from Can be installed on Example image Aharoni [6]: Sans Serif: Proportional: Bold: Hebrew: XP, Vista
The typeface was first shipped with Mac OS X Snow Leopard in August 2009. Menlo superseded the Monaco typeface, which had long been the default monospaced typeface on macOS . Menlo is based on the open source font Bitstream Vera and the public domain font DejaVu .
According to a study of online fonts by the Software Usability and Research Laboratory at Wichita State University, participants preferred Verdana as the best overall font choice, and it was also perceived as being among the most legible fonts. [12] However, Microsoft's font manager Bill Hill wrote that "with its large x-height and very ...