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The Andale Mono typeface family sold by [[Ascender Corporation]] includes [[bold]] and [[italics]] variants, in TrueType format. This version supports [[Windows Glyph List 4|WGL]] character set. |
The Andale Mono typeface family sold by [[Ascender Corporation]] includes [[bold]] and [[italics]] variants, in TrueType format. This version supports [[Windows Glyph List 4|WGL]] character set. |
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Andalé Mono is also sold by Monotype, it |
Andalé Mono is also sold by Monotype, it doesn't include italics, and doesn't support Greek, Cyrillic, and most Latin Extended-A/B characters found in Ascender version. It is available in OpenType CFF, TrueType, PostScript formats. However, Monotype has also produced language specific variants of Andalé Mono in [[Cherokee language|Cherokee]] (Andalé Mono Cherokee), Cyrillic (Andalé Mono Cyrillic), Greek (Andalé Mono Greek), Hebrew (Andalé Mono Hebrew) character sets. |
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==Andale Mono WT== |
==Andale Mono WT== |
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Revision as of 02:12, 23 November 2008
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| Category | Monospaced |
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| Designer(s) | Steve Matteson |
| Foundry | Monotype Imaging, Inc. |
Andalé Mono (also known as Andale Mono, Monotype.com) is a monospace sans-serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson for terminal emulation and software development environments, originally for the Taligent project by Apple Inc. and IBM.[1] The Andalé design was originally created by Monotype, as part of Andalé font families.
Andalé Mono was first distributed as an Internet Explorer 4.0 add-on, originally under the name Monotype.com. In version 1.25 of the font, it was renamed to Andale Mono, distributed with Internet Explorer 5.
While this typeface is no longer distributed with modern versions of Microsoft Windows (from Windows ME onwards) it is still available for download as part of the Core fonts for the Web package on Sourceforge and it is bundled with Mac OS X.
This typeface is used by programmers in text editors and IDEs for its legibility and easily identifiable characters.
Retail versions
The Andale Mono typeface family sold by Ascender Corporation includes bold and italics variants, in TrueType format. This version supports WGL character set.
Andalé Mono is also sold by Monotype, it doesn't include italics, and doesn't support Greek, Cyrillic, and most Latin Extended-A/B characters found in Ascender version. It is available in OpenType CFF, TrueType, PostScript formats. However, Monotype has also produced language specific variants of Andalé Mono in Cherokee (Andalé Mono Cherokee), Cyrillic (Andalé Mono Cyrillic), Greek (Andalé Mono Greek), Hebrew (Andalé Mono Hebrew) character sets.
Andale Mono WT
Andale Mono WT is a variant supporting all characters mapped by Unicode 3.0 code points. The WT stands for WorldType.
This family contains Andale Mono WT J, Andale Mono WT K, Andale Mono WT S, Andale Mono WT T, which include glyphs for Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese environments respectively. Andale Mono WTG, Andale Mono WTG Surrogate are fonts supporting Unicode 3.2 code points, with Andale Mono WTG Surrogate supporting characters outside U+FFFF code points.
Retail version of Andale Mono WT fonts are sold under the name Unicode Font Package for SAP by Ricoh. Raster version Andale Mono WTG is shipped with FontLab Studio 5.
See also
External links
- Andalé Mono Font Family - by Steve Matteson
- Andale Mono by Ascender Corporation
- Monotype Andalé Mono: Cherokee, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew
- Andale Mono font information (Microsoft typography)
- Downloadable version of Andale Mono (Web core fonts)
- The applicability of fonts to programming
- Unicode programmer font
- Andale Mono WT: Japanese, Simplified Chinese
- Unicode Font Package for SAP