Simple question: I'd like to use the blackboard bold symbols for real numbers, natural numbers etc. Which font on the Mac has these and how do I get them in my text, e.g. in TextEdit?
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9), Core i7, 27"
The STIXGeneral font (which I believe is included with Mavericks) contains these glyphs:
You can use the Character Viewer to insert them.
I'm not looking for chalkboard fonts, but for the very specific blackboard bold style that is often used in mathematics. See
You'd have to give us an example of what font you're looking for. Though here's one that is a chalkboard style font.
Beyond that, it's the same as any other font. Enable it with your font manager and use it.
Okay. I was just going by what 99.9% of the world's population would consider a blackboard.
Even looking for "blackboard font" in Google only leads you to various fonts which look like they were hand written on a chalkboard. Much like the one I linked to above.
What you want is referred to as an outline font. I know I have the font you linked to on Wikipedia, and quite a few others much like it, but I don't have the time to dig and see which ones they are right now.
However, a quick look an Adobe's site shows that Monotype Old Style Outline Bold is close to what you're looking for. Main search page if you want to look for others.
mp4man wrote:
For example, U+1D539 MATHEMATICAL DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL B gives
Unfortunately the forum software won't display characters withs 5 digit U+ codes, but 4 digit ones should work:
ℍℙℝℾℿ
You can use the emoji and symbols viewer to look up the unicode.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_bold
For example, U+1D539 MATHEMATICAL DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL B gives
Which font supports the blackboard bold math symbols?
