{"id":12702,"date":"2015-11-02T14:54:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T19:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12702"},"modified":"2015-11-02T14:54:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T19:54:57","slug":"sgi-screen-fonts-converted-for-mac-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/02\/sgi-screen-fonts-converted-for-mac-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"SGI Screen Fonts Converted for Mac OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/njr.sabi.net\/2015\/11\/01\/sgi-screen-fonts-converted-for-os-x\/\">Nicholas Riley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/njr.sabi.net\/2015\/11\/01\/sgi-screen-fonts-converted-for-os-x\/\">\n<p>Screen remains the most readable monospaced bitmapped font I&rsquo;ve ever used. It&rsquo;s available in regular and bold weights, and a wide range of sizes: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 18 point. While I mostly use it in the 11 point size, the smaller sizes are terrific for fitting a bunch of log output in the corner of your screen.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In 2003 I used <a href=\"http:\/\/pfaedit.sourceforge.net\/overview.html\">PfaEdit<\/a>, now <a href=\"http:\/\/fontforge.github.io\/en-US\/\">FontForge<\/a>, to convert screen to a TrueType font so it&rsquo;d work on OS X, and I have used it as my standard bitmapped font since. I would have made the conversions public earlier, but I was concerned about whether this would be a licensing violation. It turns out the SGI fonts were  <a href=\"http:\/\/rpmfind.net\/\/linux\/RPM\/opensuse\/11.4\/noarch\/sgi-fonts-1.0-935.1.noarch.html\">released under a MIT license<\/a> a few months after I initially converted them back in 2003, but I didn&rsquo;t notice until today.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Riley: Screen remains the most readable monospaced bitmapped font I&rsquo;ve ever used. It&rsquo;s available in regular and bold weights, and a wide range of sizes: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 18 point. While I mostly use it in the 11 point size, the smaller sizes are terrific for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[133,104,30,1199,74,71,318,134],"class_list":["post-12702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-font","tag-fontsmoothing","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-11","tag-opensource","tag-programming","tag-terminal","tag-typography"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12703,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12702\/revisions\/12703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}