Fonts
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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 (link to website) |
Direct download | Features |
|---|---|---|
| APL2 Unicode | IBM | Straight from IBM typewriter terminals with oblique letters. |
| APL333 | GitHub | Proportionally spaced version of APL385 Unicode |
| APL385 Unicode | Dyalog | A fun, whimsical look, inspired by Comic Sans Serif. |
| APL386 Unicode | GitHub | APL385 Unicode amended with additional accented Latin characters. |
| APLX Upright | Dyalog | A monospaced grotesque font, reminiscent of Akzidenz-Grotesk. |
| Courier APL2 Unicode | IBM | The classic Courier typewriter font, extended with APL symbols. |
| DejaVu Sans Mono | GitHub | Provides a wide range of characters while maintaining the original look and feel of the Vera Font. |
| DejaVu Sans Mono Bront | GitHub | DejaVu Sans Mono tweaked to be better geared for programming with Powerline symbols, low *, long -, more wavy ~ in order to further differentiate it from -, etc.
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| DejaVu Sans Mono Nerd | AUR | DejaVu Sans Mono patched with a high number of extra glyphs from popular ‘iconic fonts’ such as Font Awesome, Devicons, Octicons, and others. |
| Iosevka Envy Code R | GitHub | A slender monospace sans-serif and slab-serif typeface inspired by Pragmata Pro, M+ and PF DIN Mono, designed to be the ideal font for programming. |
| Iosevka Pragmata Pro | GitHub | |
| Iosevka Source Code Pro | GitHub | |
| PragmataPro | (commercial) | A condensed font optimized for screen, designed to be the ideal font for coding, math and engineering. |
| SAX2 | GitHub | Based on the font from Sharp APL for Unix, with letters in italic, it has a very "curly" look. |
| SImPL | Vector | Courier-based with complete set of all known APL symbols, plus sufficient characters to allow prompts, comments, etc., to be expressed in every European language. |
External links
- Phil Chastney: APL fonts are different
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