I am searching for a very important though very small thing that will make my life better in countless ways. In the old days, Eudora for Mac used a font called Mishawaka to render emails. I loved it and used it everywhere a fixed-width font was called for – in BBEdit, browsers, other email programs, etc. Trouble is, I can’t seem to find a standalone version anywhere. Does anyone out there have any pointers for me? Why is this pretty little typeface so hard to find?
Update – I ended up following a recommendation from a correspondent. I downloaded an old copy of Eudora and got the font from there. It turns out, though, that it is also available at an old UMich archive.
Searching!
December 19th, 2003 | Email • Font
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I recently dug out all my old floppy disks to back them all up…i think there are fonts on those disks…email me and i’ll take a look through then and see if i can find the font for you!
Thanks Warren. I got a copy from an old version of Eudora that I downloaded. The thing that surprised me is that a copy that came with a pretty recent version would never install properly, for an undetermined reason. But the copy I grabbed the other day does work like any other font file.
Mishawaka really is the most readable monospaced font out there, and I’m still old-school enough to have turned off all formatting in email and so a good mono font is important!