MLM* screen fonts

These are big (20-pixel) monospaced and proportional fonts in BDF format (a bitmap format used in X-windows under UNIX) and KOI8-R encoding (Latin plus Cyrillic - same as ASCII as far as English is concerned, so these fonts can be used as terminal fonts without any problems). Here is a tar.gz file with the full package, and installation instructions.

I wrote these fonts for my new high-resolution laptop for which the existing fonts became too small. The Latin part is heavily influenced by the font clean by D. Schumacher (which I have been using so far). For the Russian part, I attempted a different look so that letters similar in Latin and Cyrillic would be easy to distinguish - see the samples below. The punctuation glyphs are drawn with UNIX command syntax in mind. In addition to the monospace fonts monoell and monosimple, there are their "slightly proportional" versions (propell and proposimple) for better readability when exact fixed width is not necessary.

Enjoy,
Maxim Markevitch (maxim at head.cfa.harvard.edu)

* The name MLM has nothing to do with multi-level marketing, these are simply my initials.


proposimple:

sample_proposimple.png

propell:

sample_propell.png

monosimple:

sample_monosimple.png

monoell:

sample_monoell.png



20 Aug 02: Original version.

21 Feb 03: Added to the package two smaller monospace fonts rusclean (13 and 15 pixel), which combine two old public domain X-windows fonts (Latin glyphs from clean, Cyrillic glyphs from sq01).

29 Apr 03: Changed several glyphs in the Russian part of the mono* and propo* fonts.