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Interesting project, but some of these look a bit... wrong to me. For example, ProFont is my favorite bitmap programming font and the renderer used makes it look bad. Just loaded it up in my Terminal.app to show how it /should/ look: [0]. Also while I'm at it, some cool fonts not mentioned that I think deserve some attention are tewi[1] and ProggyTiny[2]. Tewi glyphs are particularly nice [3].

[0]: http://i.imgur.com/3A0HEqu.png

[1]: https://github.com/lucy/tewi-font

[2]: http://www.proggyfonts.net/download/

[3]: https://rbt.asia/boards/g/img/0379/00/1383925217833.png

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There are no windows versions of tewi, so I can't add it. And I'm not sure about ProggyTiny as I've already got proggyClean and there are so many other variants.

But I did manage to fix profont by using a ttf version instead of the .fon one. Will be updated soon.

hmm in what way do you think it looks bad? I just double checked and the screenshots on the page are correct. I can see that some letters (MN) are too close together on the site. I'll try a different font version to see if that fixes it.

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll have a look and add them all if they work. But my internet right now is damaged so it might take some time.

Yeah I think it was just the strange kerning and size that it was displayed in. I know ProFont has bitmap sizes other than 9 (10, 12, 14, 24, etc.) but I'm not accustomed to seeing any other than 9 used for programming is all.

I have a patched version of profont for windows that correctly supports the powerline glyphs which I use in mintty. In the end, when I have everything configured (ClearType disabled, MacType excludes mintty.exe), it looks exactly like my above OS X screenshot.

Woah, how'd you get your window controls to be like that?

Hello! I've been customizing my OS X installs since 10.5 with various programs (ThemePark, (S)artFiletool, and most recently Alex Zielenski's ThemeEngine[0]). I'm a fan of the `platinum' theme from Mac OS 9, so I've been creating a system-wide OS-9 theme in my spare time this past ~year. I have .car files available for Yosemite and El-Capitain (the version I'm currently using). The Yosemite files are (mostly) true to the old OS 9 aesthetic, but I thought I'd change up the look of the traffic lights on el-capitain and release it at some point [1]. I have the source files for each different design I've done, along with the Assets.car (the replacement for the deprecated [and absent in 10.11] SArtFile.bin), SystemAppearance.car (change highlight colors in menubar and right-click menus/make window masks sharp instead of rounded [yes it also affects the GraphiteAppearance.car window masks]), and the GraphiteAppearance.car (used for the platinum traffic lights) files. At some point I will finish both of these and release them, but for now (I just finished my summer job working for one of my professors/I'm on vacation at the moment) the Yosemite theme remains slightly incomplete, and I've got some more testing to do on El-Capitain. Also gotta port that Yosemite-System-fontpatcher project to work with the new San Francisco (let's not get that confused with susan kare's 1984 `SanFrancisco'! [2]) typeface so I can finally get Charcoal/Chicago as my system font again like it was in Yosemite...

[0]: https://github.com/alexzielenski/ThemeEngine

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/fpZemvX.gifv

[2]: http://i.imgur.com/Q1tZknV.png

Tewi looks a lot like montecarlo, no?

a good point. tewi does have best-in-class glyph support though.

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