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They went from a terrible font to a bad font. There are so many nice ones [e.g. have a look at https://wesbos.com/programming-fonts/ https://wesbos.com/programm
by akie 8y ago
They went from a terrible font to a bad font. There are so many nice ones [e.g. have a look at https://wesbos.com/programming-fonts/ https://wesbos.com/programming-fonts/], why not pick one of these? Inconsolata or Menlo would be a big improvement over what they chose now. Missed opportunity, IMHO.
- jachee 8y agoThe console font is required to be a bitmapped font.
- mark-r 8y agoNo reason you couldn't render a scalable font at a particular size to make a bitmapped version.
- jolux 8y agoSeveral of those have proprietary licenses. Menlo is a (afaik proprietary) Apple product derived from Bitstream’s Vera Sans Mono and included with all Macs, Consolas was done by Luc de Groot for Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007, etc.
- akie 8y agoTrue, that's why I mentioned Inconsolata, which is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, which "is considered free by the Free Software Foundation" and the Debian Project. Not sure what OpenBSD's position on that license is though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIL_Open_Font_License https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIL_Open_Font_License
- throwaway2048 8y agoIts a copyleft license, so unlikely for OpenBSD to be a fan of it. OpenBSD prefers things that are ISC/2 Clause BSD/equivalent license.
- mark-r 8y agoIs there a common font license that would conform?
- moftz 8y agoSource Code Pro, my favorite, is also under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
- toyg 8y agoOpenBSD people are most certainly not FSF or Debian fans...