Menlo (typeface)

Menlo is a monospaced sans-serif typeface designed by Jim Lyles and Charles Bigelow.^[1][3] The typeface was first shipped with Mac OS X Snow Leopard in August 2009.^[4][3][5] Menlo superseded the Monaco typeface, which had long been the default monospaced typeface on macOS.^[6][7] Menlo is based on the open source font Bitstream Vera and the public domain font DejaVu.^{[8][4][9][10][1][3]}

Menlo

Category	Sans-serif[1]
Classification	Monospace[1]
Designer	Jim Lyles[2]
Foundry	Apple Inc.[2]
Date released	2009[2]

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 San Francisco family of fonts that Apple has created as part of its corporate identity.^{[11][12][13][14][15]}

See also

• Typography of Apple Inc.