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Programming Fonts – Test Drive

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Re: Programming Fonts – Test Drive

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Post by me_bx »

strainer wrote: post #170
me_bx wrote: post #121

Reporting a bug here as I see that the author is around: For some reason, switching fonts does not work on my browser. Firefox 64.0.2, windows 10 64 bits No error message in the console, and ublock origin plugin didn't block anything on the page. Opening the same page in Google Chrome worked well: font changes in the demo code whenever user clicks on a font in the list.

Likely this setting has been disabled: View > Preferences > Language & Appearance > Advanced > Allow pages to choose their own fonts...

Turns out it was something like this.

The `Allow pages to choose their own fonts` option was enabled. However, a customization in my userContent.css prevented the font changes to be applied:

    pre {
        font-family: "DejaVu Sans Mono" !important;
    }
Starting Firefox with a new profile showed that the site works correctly.

Re: Programming Fonts – Test Drive

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Post by pier25 »

me551ah wrote: post #44

I'm surprised that the list doesn't mention consolas. It ships default with visual studio and it's so good that I use it on arch Linux as my terminal font and with intellij. It was designed with programming in mind and has some nifty characteristics like a slash through zero. This list also misses out on 'operator mono' which is a well thought out font for programming.

I agree on Consolas. I'm a Mac user and it has replaced Inconsolata which I used for years.

Re: Programming Fonts – Test Drive

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Post by sigi45 »

gnulinux wrote: post #9
Jerry2 wrote: post #4

One of my favorites is PragmataPro [0] (with powerline glyphs) and I'm sad it's not there. I guess they can't use proprietary fonts. PragmataPro was so weird when I started using it but it has grown on me and now I have a hard time switching to a terminal that uses something else. In any case, if you're like me and you look at the terminal screen for hours on end every single day, find some font that won't tire your…

Huh. Not to sound cheap, but it really seems unnecessary to me to spend 60 Eur for a font, when I already have really good fonts like Inconsolata in my reach for free. Is font really that important, do you think? This is an honest question, please don't think I'm sarcastic.

Yeah why not? I configured it on all my consoles and ideas. It looks good, is dense and good readable.

Re: Programming Fonts – Test Drive

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Post by dspillett »

int_19h wrote: post #65
me551ah wrote: post #44

I'm surprised that the list doesn't mention consolas. It ships default with visual studio and it's so good that I use it on arch Linux as my terminal font and with intellij. It was designed with programming in mind and has some nifty characteristics like a slash through zero. This list also misses out on 'operator mono' which is a well thought out font for programming.

Consolas ships with Windows itself since Win7.

That still doesn't make it free & legal to distribute as a web font so that it displays to people who don't run Windows (or otherwise have Consolas installed), so it would be more than legally dubious to include it in this site without express permission from MS (or who-ever they licensed the work from, if it wasn't created internally).

Re: Programming Fonts – Test Drive

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Post by ___alt »

cpeterso wrote: post #45

I'd like to see an elimination tournament of these so you can two fonts head-to-head and vote for your preferred until you discover you favorite. Identifont is a similar system. It uses a twenty-questions style format to identify an unknown font. http://www.identifont.com/

That would be neat, browsing through several dozen fonts to find the right pick is a bit overwhelming, although one can argue it's a self-imposed burden.
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