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| [https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/apl2 APL2 Unicode] || [https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=urx-32206 IBM] || Straight from IBM typewriter terminals with oblique letters. || | | [https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/apl2 APL2 Unicode] || [https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=urx-32206 IBM] || Straight from IBM typewriter terminals with oblique letters. || | ||
[[File:APL2 Unicode.png|none]] | [[File:APL2 Unicode.png|none]] | ||
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| [https://apl385.com/fonts/index.htm APL2741] || [https://apl385.com/fonts/apl2741.zip apl385.com] || Hand digitised from an IBM 2741 typeball || [[File:APL2741.png|x70px]] | |||
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|[http://apl385.com/fonts/index.htm APL333]|| [https://github.com/abrudz/aplcart/raw/master/apl333.ttf GitHub] ||Proportionally spaced version of APL385 Unicode|| | |[http://apl385.com/fonts/index.htm APL333]|| [https://github.com/abrudz/aplcart/raw/master/apl333.ttf GitHub] ||Proportionally spaced version of APL385 Unicode|| | ||
Revision as of 15:43, 4 June 2020
With the prevalence of Unicode, many systems render APL legibly out-of-the-box. This article lists some fonts that are especially well-suited for rendering APL characters.
| Name (website) |
Source (download) |
Description | Sample |
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| APL2 Unicode | IBM | Straight from IBM typewriter terminals with oblique letters. |
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| APL2741 | apl385.com | Hand digitised from an IBM 2741 typeball | 
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| APL333 | GitHub | Proportionally spaced version of APL385 Unicode |
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| APL385 Unicode | Dyalog | A fun, whimsical look, inspired by Comic Sans Serif. |
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| APL386 Unicode | GitHub | APL385 Unicode with less issues and more accented characters. |
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| APLX Upright | Dyalog | A monospaced grotesque font, reminiscent of Akzidenz-Grotesk. |
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| Courier APL2 Unicode | IBM | The classic Courier typewriter font, extended with APL symbols. |
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| DejaVu Sans Mono | GitHub | Wide range of characters with original look and feel of Vera. |
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| DejaVu Sans Mono Bront | GitHub | DejaVu Sans Mono tweaked to be better geared for programming. | |
| DejaVu Sans Mono Nerd | AUR | DejaVu Sans Mono patched with a high number of extra glyphs. | |
| Iosevka Envy Code R | GitHub | A slender monospace sans-serif and slab-serif typeface inspired by Pragmata Pro, M+ and PF DIN Mono. |
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| Iosevka Pragmata Pro | GitHub |
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| Iosevka Source Code Pro | GitHub |
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| PragmataPro | (commercial) | A condensed font optimized for coding, math and engineering. |
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| SAX2 | GitHub | Curly font with italic letters, based on Sharp APL for Unix. |
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| SImPL | Vector | Courier-based, but thicker. |
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| Stix Two Math | GitHub | Proportional font, broadly compatible with Times New Roman. |
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External links
- Phil Chastney: APL fonts are different
| APL development [edit] | |
|---|---|
| Interface | Session ∙ Typing glyphs (on Linux) ∙ Fonts ∙ Text editors |
| Publications | Introductions ∙ Learning resources ∙ Simple examples ∙ Advanced examples ∙ Mnemonics ∙ ISO 8485:1989 ∙ ISO/IEC 13751:2001 ∙ A Dictionary of APL ∙ Case studies ∙ Documentation suites ∙ Books ∙ Papers ∙ Videos ∙ APL Quote Quad ∙ Vector journal ∙ Terminology (Chinese, German) ∙ Neural networks ∙ Error trapping with Dyalog APL (in forms) |
| Sharing code | Backwards compatibility ∙ APLcart ∙ APLTree ∙ APL-Cation ∙ Dfns workspace ∙ Tatin ∙ Cider |
| Implementation | Resources ∙ Open-source ∙ Magic function ∙ Performance ∙ APL hardware |
| Developers | Timeline of corporations ∙ APL2000 ∙ Dyalog ∙ IBM ∙ IPSA ∙ STSC |