2017-02-12 5:52 GMT-02:00 Dan Wilcox <danomatika@gmail.com>:

As a followup after checking pd-gui.tcl, the default font is Deja Vu Sans Mono in the find_default_font method, followed buy Bitstream Vera Sands Mono, Inconsolata, etc.

The problem is that this method is only called in startup if tk 8.5 is being used, as it is right now, the precompiled Vanilla is built using the older tk 8.4 Wish app so the font finding method is not used.

Alex, can you try one of my vanilla builds that uses tk 8.6? http://docs.danomatika.com/pdbuilds/

Since you have Deja Vu installed on the system, it should be picked up automatically (in theory).

here's my test, got the tcl/tk86 pd 0.47-1 64 bits version...

first thing I notice is that fonts printed in the terminal look different, there's no warning saying it didnt find DejaVu Sans and loaded something else as well... the new tcl/tk is the left one, regular vanilla on the right!

Onto opening a patch... now, whay I do is I get into the preferences of a GUI, and if I see DejaVu there, I know it's loaded, but what happened is that I still found MONACO in the new tcl/tk version

So I even put two labels in canvases to compare them, and, well, the new tcl/tk renders it pretty well, looks much nicer, I like it. Her'es the print. Same thing, tk86 on the left, regular on the right.