I've been using "Envy Code R" ( http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-cod... ) for awhile. I find it much more readable.
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
#52You can pry ProggySquare from my cold dead hands.
Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#53Droid Sans Mono. You can't improve over perfection; can you?
Droid Sans Mono looks nice to me, but if you can't tell a zero apart from a capital o then you're asking for 30 minutes of trying to figure a really stupid bug at some point in your life.
Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#54Right now I am using Mensch font ( http://robey.lag.net/2010/06/21/mensch-font.html ). It is very readable and solid. I tried right now this post's font Anonymous Pro, also Envy Code R and Inconsolata but returned back to Mensch. They were not bad but I didn't liked them enough to switch.
Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#55Hrm, the images on the site look fuzzy, could not stand to look at that for long. The font is also a bit too…expressive? The round shapes are very prominent. There seems to be some disproportion to some letters which makes text look uneven to my eyes. I use SGIscreen at 13px, no antialias. Edit: not the best showcase but here is an old screenshot: http://files.kittensoft.org/vim_ruby.png
Am I the only person to set a 20px+ programming font? I have pretty good sight, but with a widescreen-ish macbook, you can easily get 120 chars in a window at that size and it's much easier to scan code.
Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#56I wonder how this stacks up with Microsoft's Consolas font. I've been using it as my default for a few years now.
Consolas is definitely my favourite. I switched over in Windows when I first saw it, and now use it in OSX too.
http://www.wezm.net/technical/2010/08/howto-install-consolas...
Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#57Thank you.
This is the first 'programmer font' that I like enough to consider using instead of Lucida Console.
Yes, others seem to look nice and whatever, but Lucida Console is efficient. More information in less space without looking crowded.
Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#58Hrm, the images on the site look fuzzy, could not stand to look at that for long. The font is also a bit too…expressive? The round shapes are very prominent. There seems to be some disproportion to some letters which makes text look uneven to my eyes. I use SGIscreen at 13px, no antialias. Edit: not the best showcase but here is an old screenshot: http://files.kittensoft.org/vim_ruby.png
Am I the only person to set a 20px+ programming font? I have pretty good sight, but with a widescreen-ish macbook, you can easily get 120 chars in a window at that size and it's much easier to scan code.
I have a 17" MBP and a 30" LCD and I happily use an 11px font (Monaco or Manlo). 20px would seem silly to me, no offense. I have room for 120 chars, 120 lines, and plenty of space for tech design docs, API guides, terminals, etc....
Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#59I 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...
The 'using spaces instead of tabs' issue seems to have something to do with this.
Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#60Droid Sans Mono. You can't improve over perfection; can you?
Droid Sans Mono looks nice to me, but if you can't tell a zero apart from a capital o then you're asking for 30 minutes of trying to figure a really stupid bug at some point in your life.
Droid ships with a "Droid Sans Mono Slashed" with a slashed zero -- at least on Gentoo.