I really like this font at 9pt for the code as it becomes not antialiased. are there other pretty not antialiased fonts out there?
Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders
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Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders
#52This looks like a great font. I love Inconsolata—I've used it for more than a few months now, and it's extremely good. I've tried Monaco, Monaco Lives, Menlo (I think?) etc. and keep going back to Inconsolata. :-)
Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders
#53Here'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.
I like Source Code Pro, but it lacks italics. That's really the only downside to me. I love Monaco also, but only unaliased at about 10pt. Otherwise, I use Menlo or DejaVu Sans Mono usually. I've known about Anonymous Pro, but have not given it much usage yet to decide if I like it more than others.
What would you use italics for in programming? I've never used italics, maybe I'm missing something.
Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders
#54Anonymous Pro is not exactly a sans-serif font, but it does look nice.
Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders
#55Here'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.
Thanks! I switched to Liberation Mono, it's almost as legible as Droid Sans Mono but differentiates the 0 and O. The link to Proggy Clean redirects to Groupon, it can be downloaded here instead: http://www.dafont.com/proggy-clean.font
+1 for Proggy Clean. I have used it for many years now.
Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders
#56Here'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.
Monaco -- not my favorite but up there -- is remarkably good especially given it was a first generation Truetype redo of a bitmap font.
Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders
#57There 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?
I've been using the font for years on both openSUSE and ubuntu and never seen the problem. Then again, the page says it only shows up at 12pt, which is not a font size I use.
Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders
#58Here'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.
What I really like about Source Code Pro is that it has a 'Light' version, which looks absolutely perfect on OSX with its fatty font rendering. Before this, I used to always have t acclimate between Ubuntu and OSX and Windows, but not anymore!
Thanks for that tip. It really makes a difference in readability.
Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders
#59One feature I would like to see in a font: Really awesome Unicode support. With characters like all the subscript/superscript digits and letters. And all the combining diacritics (like hat, dots, double dots, overlines, vector arrows etc.). Also, some fonts are monospaced in the ASCII set, but not for less common characters such as typographic quoted. Do you know a font that qualifies here? Because Unicode is super a…
You probably want Dejavu Sans Mono. Check out [1] to see the Unicode characters it supports.
[1] http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/samples/DejaVuSansMono.pdf
Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like Source Code Pro, but it lacks italics. That's really the only downside to me. I love Monaco also, but only unaliased at about 10pt. Otherwise, I use Menlo or DejaVu Sans Mono usually. I've known about Anonymous Pro, but have not given it much usage yet to decide if I like it more than others.
What would you use italics for in programming? I've never used italics, maybe I'm missing something.
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