What is the default font for Arduino Serial Output?

Projects Programming
1

Just that.
What is the default font for Arduino Serial Output?

2

There is actually no font in the serial output :slight_smile:
But if you want to know what ist the font of the serial monitor ...
Take a look at the preferences. You will find "Editor font size" which will also influence the font size of the Serial Monitor. But you have to close and reopen the Serial Monitor to see the effect.
On the bottom of the preferences window you will find

More preferences can be edited dirictly in the file
... Arduino15/preferences.txt

Click on the filename and the filemager will open, you may find "preferences.txt".
Open it and search for "font" and you can find the default editor font which will also influence the serial monitor.
Looks like it depends on the operating system. On my Windows PC it is

editor.font=Monospaced,plain,12

om my Mac it is

editor.font=Monaco,plain,12
3

Thanks uxomm. I see that in preferences on my Windows PC. Now I want a character list. I need to know if the font (which contains 2,862 glyphs) included the degree symbol (little circle in superscript) and, if it does, what its character identification number is.

Google gives me references to the font but I can't find a character list.

Can you or someone please help?

Thanks

4

On my windows PC I get the degree symbol printed in the serial monitor with this code

Serial.write(161);

But it may depend also on the language settings.

To find out more about the charakters and symbols the serial monitor can display you can try to use code like this:

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
  for (int i=32; i<256; i++) {
    Serial.print (i);
    Serial.print(": ");
    Serial.write(i);
    Serial.println();
  }
}

void loop() { }

It also looks like it is dependant on the operating system (maybe also on the font type).
On my windows PC I get many different "symbols" with higher numbers than 127 on my Mac I don't get anything.

5

Character map is a tool included with windows that shows you every glyph in a font and what char code it is

6

DrAzzy:
Character map is a tool included with windows that shows you every glyph in a font and what char code it is

I am unaware of it.
How do I use it?