Fonts
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With the prevalence of Unicode, many systems render APL legibly out-of-the-box. However, for a uniform appearance, the font should be designed with APL in mind.[1] This article lists some fonts that are especially well-suited.
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Source (download) |
Description | Sample |
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| APL2 Unicode | IBM | Straight from IBM typewriter terminals with oblique letters. |
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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. |
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| DejaVu Sans Mono Nerd | AUR | DejaVu Sans Mono patched with a high number of extra glyphs. | |
| Fairfax | KreativeKorp | Regular/Bold/Italic 6×12 bitmap font supporting many characters. |  |
| Fairfax SM | Fairfax without characters of different width than basic ASCII. | | |
| Fairfax Serif | Serif 6×12 bitmap font supporting many characters. |  | |
| Fairfax Serif SM | Fairfax Serif without characters of different width than basic ASCII. | | |
| Fairfax HD | KreativeKorp | Plotter-like font supporting many characters. |  |
| Fairfax HD SM | Fairfax HD without characters of different width than basic ASCII. | | |
| 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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| JuliaMono | GitHub | For environments that require a wide range of specialist and technical Unicode characters. |  |
| 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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Historical anecdote
Using IBM's APL\360 required the use of the IBM 2741 or IBM 1050 printing terminal with an APL type ball. The APL2741 font is based directly on this type ball.
References
- ↑ Phil Chastney: APL fonts are different
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