Dina Bitmap Font for OSX
I used FontForge to create a version of the Dina programming font optimized for OSX.
[ Download DinaMedium.dfont.zip ]
Usage note: you must set the font size to 16 for this font to display correctly. See below.
Other versions of the Dina font I was able to find on the internet all got screwed up on OSX so I made this one. It seems to work great in Emacs.app, MacVim, and XCode.
To use this file, unzip it and put DinaMedium.dfont into ~/Library/Fonts/ and follow the instructions for your editor:
Emacs.app configuration: I am using emacs24 compiled with these instructions. I added these lines to ~/.emacs:
(setq mac-allow-anti-aliasing nil)
(set-frame-font "-apple-Dina-medium-normal-normal--16--*-*-m-0-iso10646-1")
MacVim configuration: Using the latest macvim, I added this line to ~/.vimrc:
set noantialias
set guifont=Dina-medium:h16
Any other app configuration: Select Dina-medium from the standard OSX font picker and set size to 16.
Dina is my favorite font for programming. All letters and symbols are clearly disambiguated, like zero and a capital ‘O’, or braces, brackets, and parenthesis (essential for clojure programming). The size is just right for my eyes and a 30″ display. And I love the overall aesthetic. Hope you enjoy!
Thanks for making this available! From the screenshot it looks like it’s a fair bit less compact vertically than the good old xterm/x11 font. On a 30-inch screen that gives 120 lines of code per window and, at 80 columns, you can fit 5 windows side-by-side. 600 lines of code all in view!
That reminds me a fancy emacs feature that sounds really nice: follow-mode.
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/emacs/Follow-Mode.html
Daniel Reeves
August 30, 2011 at 7:44 am