Menlo (typeface)

Menlo is a monospaced sans-serif typeface designed by Jim Lyles. The face first shipped with Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Menlo is based upon the Open Source font Bitstream Vera and the public domain font DejaVu.[1]

Menlo
CategorySans-serif
ClassificationMonospace
Designer(s)Jim Lyles
FoundryApple Inc.

Replacement

Menlo was replaced as the system monospaced font: in Mac OS 10.11, with a new Apple-made monospaced font called "SF Mono", a monospaced variant of the San Francisco family of fonts that Apple has created as part of its corporate identity. It is not installed as a user-accessible typeface by default, although it is included with and used by Xcode.

SF Mono can be installed on macOS by downloading it from the Apple Developer website. Even if it is installed by the user, SF Mono's license agreement is extraordinarily restrictive; it limits use of the font "solely in conjunction with Apple-branded applications", and it is not allowed to be embedded anywhere. Any other use of the typeface requires written consent from Apple.

See also
  • "Apple "Menlo" font..." Typophile forum discussion about introduction of Menlo. June 2009.
  • Dr. Drang (2009-10-27). "The compleat Menlo/Vera Sans comparison".
  • fnurl (2011-06-22). "Comparison: Bitstream vs DejaVu vs Menlo".

References
  1. Embedded Menlo font info


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