https://github.com/vjpr/monaco-bold

The Monaco font with a bold variant
https://github.com/vjpr/monaco-bold

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The Monaco font with a bold variant

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/vjpr/monaco-bold
• Owner: vjpr
• Created: 2013-06-08T06:29:58.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-10-01T17:43:04.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-18T04:35:50.330Z (3 months ago)
• Size: 1.05 MB
• Stars: 375
• Watchers: 17
• Forks: 80
• Open Issues: 6
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  • Readme: README.md

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![Monaco](https://raw.github.com/vjpr/monaco-bold/master/logo.png)

# Monaco Bold

_The Monaco font with a bold variant_

## Examples

**Monaco - Original**

![Monaco](https://raw.github.com/vjpr/monaco-bold/master/Monaco.png)

**MonacoB**

![MonacoB](https://raw.github.com/vjpr/monaco-bold/master/MonacoB/MonacoB.png)

**MonacoB2**

![MonacoB2](https://raw.github.com/vjpr/monaco-bold/master/MonacoB2/MonacoB2.png)

## Motivation

My favorite fixed-width programming font is Monaco 10pts. I develop in IntelliJ on OSX which uses boldness as part of its syntax highlighting. Unfortunately Monaco doesn't include a bold variant. Initially I thought it would be easy to find a replacement font with a bold variant, but I was not happy with any of the replacements. Some replacements I looked at were: Consolas, Inconsolata, Droid Sans Mono and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.

## The Fonts

I have created three fonts with different weights for the bold variant. You may be asking why I didn't use variants such as Semi-Bold or Extra-Bold. The reason for this is IntelliJ's (and I'm guessing other editors) syntax highlighting doesn't allow creating highlighting rules for font variants other than bold, italic.

- MonacoB - bold (20% transform)

- MonacoBSemi - bolder (30% transform)

- MonacoB2 - boldest (40% transform)

`Monaco.dfont` is the original font from OSX.

## Install

### OSX

Drag-drop `MonacoB/MonacoB.otf` and `MonacoB/MonacoB-Bold.otf` into `Font Book > User` or double-click and select `Install font` from the dialog. Repeat the same for the `MonacoB2` folder.

## How?

The new fonts were created by transforming height and width of each glyph, and modifying the font meta-data to allow it to be installed side-by-side with the system Monaco.

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The font looks great on OSX - have not tested on Windows.

Hope you like it!