Andalé Mono

Infobox font
name = Andalé Mono


style = Monospaced
date = 1995
creator = Steve Matteson
foundry = Monotype Imaging, Inc.|

Andalé Mono (also known as Andale Mono, [http://www.microsoft.com/typography/links/News.aspx?NID=477 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. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxbzE_JAs3A] 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 does not include italics, and does not 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.

ee also

* Core fonts for the Web
* List of fonts in Mac OS X

External links

* [http://www.linotype.com/en/145683/andalmono-family.html Andalé Mono Font Family - by Steve Matteson]
* [http://www.ascendercorp.com/msfonts/andale_mono.html Andale Mono by Ascender Corporation]
*Monotype Andalé Mono: [http://www.monotypeimaging.com/ProductsServices/wt_fontsample.aspx?type=cherokee Cherokee] , [http://www.monotypeimaging.com/ProductsServices/wt_fontsample.aspx?type=cyrillic Cyrillic] , [http://www.monotypeimaging.com/ProductsServices/wt_fontsample.aspx?type=greekm Greek] , [http://www.monotypeimaging.com/ProductsServices/wt_fontsample.aspx?type=hebrew Hebrew]
* [http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FID=11&FNAME=Andale%20Mono Andale Mono font information] (Microsoft typography)
* [http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe?download Downloadable version of Andale Mono] (Web core fonts)
* [http://typographi.com/000744.php The applicability of fonts to programming]
* [http://www.typophile.com/node/41253 Unicode programmer font]
*Andale Mono WT: [http://www.fonts.hk/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=25&page=9 Japanese] , [http://www.fonts.hk/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=25&page=10 Simplified Chinese]
* [http://www.ricoh-europe.com/solutions/printingsolutions/s_unicode.xhtml Unicode Font Package for SAP]