ProFont is a

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font available in many formats. It is intended to be used for programming in IDE environments and it is available in

bitmap In computing, a bitmap is a mapping from some domain (for example, a range of integers) to bits. It is also called a bit array or bitmap index. As a noun, the term "bitmap" is very often used to refer to a particular bitmapping application: t ...

and

TrueType TrueType is an outline font standard developed by Apple in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. It has become the most common format for fonts on the classic Mac OS, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating ...

versions for various platforms. Originally developed as shareware by Andrew Welchhttp://www.info-mac.org/viewtopic.php?f=135&t=3569&p=3570&hilit=profont#p3570 for the

Apple Macintosh The Mac (known as Macintosh until 1999) is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc., Apple Inc. Macs are known for their ease of use and minimalist designs, and are popular among students, creative professionals, and ...

in TrueType format, ProFont was intended to have metrics identical with Apple's default

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font—resulting in an 80-column by 25-line display in a

Compact Macintosh A Compact Macintosh (or Compact Mac) is an all-in-one Apple Mac computer with a display integrated in the computer case, beginning with the original Macintosh 128K. Compact Macs include the original Macintosh through to the Color Classic sold ...

full screen window—but with additional features desirable for programming, such as a

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and easily distinguished curly brackets. ProFont was bundled with the

BBEdit BBEdit is a proprietary text editor made by Bare Bones Software, originally developed for Macintosh System Software 6, and currently supporting macOS. History The first version of BBEdit was created as a "bare bones" text editor to serve as a "p ...

text editor.

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ProFont for Windows, Mac, Linux

Cyrillic ProFont

ProFont ("Orp") for X11/xterm as BDF/PCF
Monospaced typefaces Computer-related introductions in 1986 {{typography-stub