Welcome to the APL-385 Font Resources

All fonts listed on this page are original artwork by Adrian Smith, and are freely placed into the public domain.

APL2741 (monospaced terminal-style font)

Historic interest only. This was hand digitised as a PostScript Type-3 font from an original 2741 golf-ball salvaged from an IBM selectric typewriter. Looks good on paper, but poor on screen as it is lightweight and italic. The hinting is rudimentary and even with ClearType it is hard to read!

The 2003 version of this font is available from here.

APL385 Unicode (monospaced code font)

Developed with all APL software vendors in the late 1980s and enhanced as required with new characters to meet interpreter updates. Thanks to Dave Liebtag (IBM), Richard Nabavi (APL.68000) and all at Dyalog APL for their support.

The latest version of this font is available from here.

APL333 (not monospaced, also Unicode)

The same artwork as above, but proportionally spaced, as there are many of us who see no need to mono-space code these days! Looks splendid in Visual Studio as a C# font.

The latest version of this font is available from here.