Droid Sans Mono. You can't improve over perfection; can you?
New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
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Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#42I wonder what the world would be like if somebody designed a nice variable-width font for typesetting code. It would be different than a font designed for setting English, but I wonder if we wouldn't get the same benefits of beauty and legibility.
I mean, it's kinda silly that we continue to program in fixed-width type, given what modern software can do with setting type on the fly...
Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#43Droid Sans Mono. You can't improve over perfection; can you?
It wasn't the font I was looking for.
Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#44Why does the font matter? This is a serious question. I use the default font on all of my editors and I've never had a problem. I can tell ohs from zeros and els from ones, etc. And I don't care about different types of serifs or other typographical nuances. Do most of the advantages come when using alphabets besides English? Why are custom programming fonts so popular?
A good font can make you more efficient. A font which is just as readable as another, but at a smaller size, gets more code on the screen. A font where you can more quickly distinguish 0 from O saves you some tiny sliver of time, yes, but more importantly, if the difference is great enough it can prevent distraction/context-switching.
Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#45Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 4 evah! :)
Has a dot in the center of '0' which differentiates it from 'O' but is more readable than a slash.
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1....
Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#46This font is not new. This re-release has been out over a year and its predecessor (Anonymous) has been around almost ten. I've seen it in plenty of "best programming fonts" articles. That said, it is nice to have something different from the usual simple sans model of most modern monospaces (e.g., Deja Vu Sans Mono, Consolas, and Inconsolata). Anonymous has a lot of character – which either interests or annoys you.…
Agreed. I've been using it for close to a year as my default in Eclipse, I like it a lot.
Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#47This font is not new. This re-release has been out over a year and its predecessor (Anonymous) has been around almost ten. I've seen it in plenty of "best programming fonts" articles. That said, it is nice to have something different from the usual simple sans model of most modern monospaces (e.g., Deja Vu Sans Mono, Consolas, and Inconsolata). Anonymous has a lot of character – which either interests or annoys you.…
True, isn't really new, I use it since January.
Though, there are two best "programming" fonts according to me: - free: Droid Sans Mono ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_(font) ) - paid: Pragmata ( http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragma.htm )
One thing I like about Inconsolata Pro is that it supports Cyrillic fonts (the other two also support), there are many good monospaced fonts which don't have Cyrillic support, and there are lot of programmers who like to make the comments in the code in their native language.
Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#48Every couple of months I try a new programming font, but I always go back to Inconsolata.
Me too. Here's a link for the unenlightened: http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
You can even have it replace tt in your LaTeX files. Download and \usepackage{inconsolata} in your preamble.
Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#49Why does the font matter? This is a serious question. I use the default font on all of my editors and I've never had a problem. I can tell ohs from zeros and els from ones, etc. And I don't care about different types of serifs or other typographical nuances. Do most of the advantages come when using alphabets besides English? Why are custom programming fonts so popular?
I can't really give you a reasoned answer. But using a `wrong' font just bugs me enough, that I feel irritated all the time.
Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#50This font is not new. This re-release has been out over a year and its predecessor (Anonymous) has been around almost ten. I've seen it in plenty of "best programming fonts" articles. That said, it is nice to have something different from the usual simple sans model of most modern monospaces (e.g., Deja Vu Sans Mono, Consolas, and Inconsolata). Anonymous has a lot of character – which either interests or annoys you.…
I used it for a little bit, but as always, switched back to Envy Code R. At 12pt on my Mac Terminal, it renders with no anti-aliased blurriness.
http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-cod...