Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

Monaco Gripe

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006 19:46

Mac OS X 10.4.4: "Includes later versions of the Courier and Monaco system fonts that resolve certain Central European language and Cyrillic glyph display issues". In unantialiased Monaco 9, I have noticed the following differences:

  • •: The bullet is slightly smaller. Good.
  • & « »: The ampersand and angle-quotes look smashed. Bad.
  • t: The lowercase 't' is intermittently shifted left one pixel. Bad.
  • p: The lowercase 'p' is intermittently displayed narrower (the loop is squished). Bad.

And yes, I do mean intermittently. The appearance of 'p' is changing as I use the system.