Menlo is a

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typeface designed by Jim Lyles and Charles Bigelow. The typeface was first shipped with

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in August 2009. Menlo superseded the

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typeface, which had long been the default monospaced typeface on

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. Menlo is based on the

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font

Bitstream Vera Vera is a digital typeface (computer font) superfamily with a liberal license. It was designed by Jim Lyles from the now-defunct Bitstream Inc. type foundry, and it is closely based on Bitstream Prima, for which Lyles was also responsible. It i ...

and the public domain font DejaVu.Embedded Menlo font info

Replacement

Menlo was replaced as the system monospaced font in Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan in September 2015, with a new Apple-made monospaced font called SF Mono, a monospaced variant of the

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family of fonts that Apple has created as part of its corporate identity.

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External links

The complete Menlo/Vera Sans comparison
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Replacement

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