Any good Monospaced fonts for System 6-9?

[beachycove]

A monospaced font speeds things up nicely in long text document on something like a Compact Mac. The only ones I can find to use, however, are basically Courier and Monaco, neither of which is especially pleasing on the eye. There are old Mac fonts galore, of course, but I can't find anything other than proportional fonts among them. These are fine for printed text, but not so good for onscreen work.

Are there any decent monospaced fonts that anyone can remember? Surely there were some, for use in BBEdit and MPW or the like!

 

[olePigeon]

Any TrueType font should work.  I Googled for monospaced fonts and quite a few free ones came up, including a few designed for coding.

 

[jack]

Any TrueType font should work.

I think TTF support came with System 7, which may (probably) not be the system of choice for compact macs.

As far as bitmapped fonts go (which is all you get on System <7, IIRC), terminus looks pretty good on a CRT. You might want to give it a shot.

 

[beachycove]

A Unicode font will work in System 7-9? I thought they couldn’t.

 

[jack]

I'm fairly certain you'll have unicode support in Mac OS >=8.5

http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts_mac.html

As for if fonts containing unicode will work on 7.0 - 8.1, not sure. Why not give it a try?

 

[beachycove]

Any TrueType font should work.  I Googled for monospaced fonts and quite a few free ones came up, including a few designed for coding.

Nope, today’s fonts no workie. 

 

[Juror22]

My favorite was Hell's Programmer, I used it for decades!  I still have it on floppy.

 

[ArmorAlley]

Today's fonts are all OpenType aren't they? If that is true, then an OpenType » TrueType converter (along the lines of TTConverter) is what you need.

One of the MacFormat CDs (October 1994) came with a lot of shareware fonts. I think that it is up on Macintosh Garden or on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/1.Front