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Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders

#1

Post by tambourine_man » Tue, Sep 10, 2013, 12:20 AM UTC

Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders
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Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders

#2

Post by pdevr » Tue, Sep 10, 2013, 12:31 AM UTC

This is the second "coders' font" to hit HN today.

Personally, I like the font. And its license.

Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders

#3

Post by laymil » Tue, Sep 10, 2013, 1:32 AM UTC

There was a good write up on HN a while back about this font, including a republished version called Nameless Amateur which fixes the positioning of the forward slash. See http://1overn.com/2011/02/02/tweaking-my-favorite-programmin...

Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders

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Post by muuck » Tue, Sep 10, 2013, 1:48 AM UTC

pdevr wrote: post #2

This is the second "coders' font" to hit HN today. Personally, I like the font. And its license.

I think this post is a reaction on that other type post because Anonymous Pro is few years old.

Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders

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Post by hayksaakian » Tue, Sep 10, 2013, 2:13 AM UTC

my biggest thing is differentiating a 1 and and l

in this font, the 1 is quite distinct, but the l seems too closely similar.

I like the default font in sublime, and how it clearly indicates and l by having a vertical line with lower right and upper left serifs

Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders

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Post by ljoshua » Tue, Sep 10, 2013, 2:15 AM UTC

I really like Anonymous Pro and use it most of the time on my OS X machines. When not using Anonymous Pro, I also really like Adobe's Source Code Pro (free, and even on GitHub):

http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro.... https://github.com/adobe/source-code-pro

And on Windows? Either Anonymous Pro or Consolas. Having nice fonts for coding just feels so good. :)

Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders

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Post by 8ig8 » Tue, Sep 10, 2013, 2:49 AM UTC

Here's a good comparison (and vote) of programming fonts:

http://www.slant.co/topics/67/~what-are-the-best-programming...

Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders

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Post by mpd » Tue, Sep 10, 2013, 3:04 AM UTC

muuck wrote: post #4

pdevr wrote: post #2

This is the second "coders' font" to hit HN today. Personally, I like the font. And its license.

I think this post is a reaction on that other type post because Anonymous Pro is few years old.

Yeah, it's come up a few times in the past.

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=anonymous+font

Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders

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Post by dazmax » Tue, Sep 10, 2013, 3:53 AM UTC

8ig8 wrote: post #7

Here's a good comparison (and vote) of programming fonts: http://www.slant.co/topics/67/~what-are-the-best-programming... Most popular: Source Code Pro http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro.... Monaco, my favorite, comes at #3.

Argh, why does no one include a tilde in the sample? A raised tilde ruins a font for me because of the ruby match operator: =~

Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders

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Post by pleiotrope » Tue, Sep 10, 2013, 3:57 AM UTC

laymil wrote: post #3

There was a good write up on HN a while back about this font, including a republished version called Nameless Amateur which fixes the positioning of the forward slash. See http://1overn.com/2011/02/02/tweaking-my-favorite-programmin...

Anecdotally, I just installed this font on OS X and don't notice this issue. It may have been resolved, or perhaps was only an issue in Ubuntu?