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+           SPELL=ttf-mensch
+         VERSION=1
+   SOURCE_IGNORE=unversioned
+          SOURCE="mensch.ttf"
+   SOURCE_URL[0]=http://robey.lag.net/downloads/${SOURCE}
+     SOURCE_HASH=sha512:5525beb76b4d49bd1cb4cfb105d513ebe5e6e7c2faa9c66967440c7a849587c74b8568fa2b81d4500e776078a35f70cf83d28dd6d670e9ae91bb69ece36a3c53
+SOURCE_DIRECTORY="${BUILD_DIRECTORY}/${SPELL}"
+        WEB_SITE="http://robey.lag.net/2010/06/21/mensch-font.html"
+      LICENSE[0]=Freely Distributable
+         ENTERED=20140518
+           SHORT="a console font based on MacOS X's Menlo font"
+cat << EOF
+The latest MacOS release (10.6, or “Snow Leopard”) comes with a new
+monospace font. It’s called “Menlo” and it’s a slightly modified
+form of the standard Linux font (with appropriately weightly Linux name)
+“DejaVu Sans Serif Mono”, which is itself an updated form of Bitstream
+Vera Sans Mono. Apple’s modifications are a definite improvement to my
+eyes, mostly because they thicken up some of the wispier glyphs from DejaVu,
+like the underline and period.
+
+The Mensch font is based on Menlo and is modified as follows:
+
+ * Zero is back to being a circle with a dot in the middle.  * The
+ ampersand’s loop was closed. That was also bugging me.  * Three is rendered
+ in the gothic style, because the gothic style is clearly
+   superior.
+ * Lowercase L is drawn in a more traditional style (the Menlo variant looks
+   bizarre to me), and one is turned gothic. I think the original artist
+   drew the L weirdly to make it extremely clear that it’s not a one, but
+   if you draw a gothic one, the difference is obvious even with a simpler L.
+ * The bang, question, lowercase I, and lowercase J are made friendlier by
+   turning the dots into actual circles, not just blocks.
+ * Angle brackets are embiggened to facilitate languages like Java and C++ that
+   use them to enclose class names. They parallel parens and square brackets
+   in size now.
+ * Q and lowercase Q are made more distinct. Lowercase Q gets a little more
+   spunk. (This was a bit gratuitous.)
+EOF