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Plan 9 uses Lucida Sans Unicode, which was the OS X system font (as Lucida Grande) until recently. There is a resemblance between this font and Lucida Sans Unicode, they come from the same foundry, after all, but they are significantly different.

> Ironically, the Plan9 folk seem to shun TrueType in favor of bitmap fonts.

It's true Plan 9 uses bitmap fonts, but that's just how the technology was implemented (so you could use BitBlt, etc), there is no shunning of trye type fonts.



Clearly you haven't been on 9fans over Summer :)


Was there a font thread you're referring to?




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