In search of...

...a version or derivative of Apple's Monaco font.

You see - I really like Monaco for reading email, IRC etc. It's a mono-spaced font, and the plain, regular version is beautifully clear.

But it has this problem: there ISN'T a proper bold. Sure, the Mac can fake one, but Mac fake bold fonts have one major problem: they're WIDER than the regular version, because it does it by growing the pixels that make up the font. Which means if you use Monaco in a terminal or Emacs window with ANSI graphics, any BOLD characters are effectively no longer mono-spaced, and the end result looks crap beyond belief.

"So what" I hear you say. "Fixed width fonts and terminal windows are for dinosaurs." Actually, no they're not. For those of us who have to work on servers several thousand miles away on packages which don't have funky web interfaces for the real man's bits of their configuration, they're anything but.

So, here's my plea: I need a Monaco Bold that's the same width and look as Monaco.