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I like the new Menlo font on Snow Leopard a lot. I tried copying it over to my Windows machine, but Windows does not like the format. Does anyone know if there's any legitimate way of getting Menlo on Windows?

Thank you.

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Is it an OpenType font or some other format? – e100 Oct 23 '09 at 15:40
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To put that anther way, does the font file have an extension? – Electrons_Ahoy Oct 23 '09 at 18:29
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This may be a bit of a workaround - but the font is very similar to Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.

Here is a comparison of Menlo and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono DejaVu Sans Mono (also based on Bitstream's original).

You can download the Bitstream set absolutely free (zip file).

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Actually, the site you link to compares Menlo and DejaVu Sans Mono. (It also notes that both Menlo and DejaVu Sans Mono are based on Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.) Still, +1 for reminding folks about these great open source fonts. – Telemachus Oct 23 '09 at 19:18
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I split ttc into ttf files using FontForge and I installed Menlo font on Ubuntu. It doesn't look exactly like on a Mac though. MacOS is better at font rendering.

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Would you please upload it somewhere so I can use it? thanks in advance and Kind Regards. – AMgdy Apr 25 '11 at 11:23
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this font https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font is designed to be similar to Menlo

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Try converting the file to a Windows format; you could try DfontSplitter to do this. However, I'm not sure if this is legal.

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