Thread: Suggestion: Use "Menlo" rather than "Monaco" as default font
In pgAdmin 1.14.2 bundled with Postgres 9.1.3 on Mac OS X as installed by the EnterpriseDB installers… Preferences > Query Tool > Font is set to “Monaco” font. While Monaco is one of the original fonts shipped with every Mac ever made, in recent years Apple has bundled a much improvedmonospaced sans-serif font named “Menlo”. Menlo is found on Macs running Snow Leopard and Lion (Mac OS X 10.6 & 10.7).Menlo is much easier to read on-screen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menlo_(typeface) Please considering setting “Menlo” as the preferred default font when found on a user’s Mac. —Basil Bourque
On Sat, 2012-04-07 at 18:53 -0700, Basil Bourque wrote: > In pgAdmin 1.14.2 bundled with Postgres 9.1.3 on Mac OS X as installed by the EnterpriseDB installers… > > Preferences > Query Tool > Font > is set to “Monaco” font. > > While Monaco is one of the original fonts shipped with every Mac ever made, in recent years Apple has bundled a much improvedmonospaced sans-serif font named “Menlo”. Menlo is found on Macs running Snow Leopard and Lion (Mac OS X 10.6 & 10.7).Menlo is much easier to read on-screen. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menlo_(typeface) > > Please considering setting “Menlo” as the preferred default font when found on a user’s Mac. > I'll let Dave answer this one. I don't use my Mac much, can't say if it's really interesting. One thought though: we can set a different default font for Mac users. I'm not sure we can do this for Mac users having Snow Leopard and later versions of Mac OS X. -- Guillaume http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info http://www.dalibo.com
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote: > On Sat, 2012-04-07 at 18:53 -0700, Basil Bourque wrote: >> In pgAdmin 1.14.2 bundled with Postgres 9.1.3 on Mac OS X as installed by the EnterpriseDB installers… >> >> Preferences > Query Tool > Font >> is set to “Monaco” font. >> >> While Monaco is one of the original fonts shipped with every Mac ever made, in recent years Apple has bundled a much improvedmonospaced sans-serif font named “Menlo”. Menlo is found on Macs running Snow Leopard and Lion (Mac OS X 10.6 & 10.7).Menlo is much easier to read on-screen. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menlo_(typeface) >> >> Please considering setting “Menlo” as the preferred default font when found on a user’s Mac. >> > > I'll let Dave answer this one. I don't use my Mac much, can't say if > it's really interesting. We don't specify the default font. It comes from OS X/wxWidgets. I suspect it may change with wxWidgets 2.9 which will build against Cocoa instead of Carbon. > One thought though: we can set a different default font for Mac users. > I'm not sure we can do this for Mac users having Snow Leopard and later > versions of Mac OS X. Shouldn't be too hard. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company