Sorry, but nothing beats the good old IBM 3270 font. https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
A similar more modern font is Terminus.
Hack – A typeface designed for source code
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Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code
#122Real programmers use a 3x5 pixel font, to get the most code on the screen as possible! https://web.archive.org/web/20150407130603/http://mckoss.com...
Viewing that story on a 2560x1440 screen is... yeah I mean I'm young, but my eyes can't do that. I don't know anyone who can :x
On a 12 inch apple II monitor that font displayed at 28 dpi, so you have to zoom in 3 to 4 times to see it in the size it was designed for.
Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code
#123Stop making sans serif fonts for code!
Code has to be readable. Those serifs aren't merely decoration: They're visual cues that help your eye intuitively determine which letter is intended by a given shape.
Sans fonts may look "clean" but they actually take your eye longer to read.
Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code
#124Stop making sans serif fonts for code! Code has to be readable. Those serifs aren't merely decoration: They're visual cues that help your eye intuitively determine which letter is intended by a given shape. Sans fonts may look "clean" but they actually take your eye longer to read.
"So before you go around claiming that serif typefaces are easier to read than sans-serif typefaces, you might want to do a little checking around. The embarrassing truth is, there's no solid research to back up that claim."
Source with references: http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-serif-readability...
One of many studies that show it's actually additional spacing that's at work when small text readability is improved with serifs: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612630/
Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Viewing that story on a 2560x1440 screen is... yeah I mean I'm young, but my eyes can't do that. I don't know anyone who can :x
On a 12 inch apple II monitor that font displayed at 28 dpi, so you have to zoom in 3 to 4 times to see it in the size it was designed for.
Extra credit if you can read that hires text on an Apple ][ color monitor (or NTSC color TV), where you get one color per two pixels, with seven pixels per byte, and some very quirky rules for figuring out the color!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_graphics#High-Resolut...
The Apple II's Hi-Res mode was peculiar even by the standards of the day...
Each pair of adjacent pixels generated a single color pixel via artifact color, resulting in an effective resolution of 140×200. The lower seven bits of each byte represented the pixels, while the most significant bit controlled the phase offset for that block of pixels, altering the color that was displayed...
Finally, another quirk of Wozniak's design is that while any pixel could be black or white, only pixels with odd X-coordinates could be green or orange. Likewise, only even-numbered pixels could be violet or blue.[4] This is where the so-called "fringe benefit" comes in. The Apple video hardware interprets a sequence of three or more turned-on horizontal pixels as solid white, while a sequence of alternating pixels would display as color. Similarly, a sequence of three or more turned-off horizontal pixels would display as black.
Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code
#126Sorry, but nothing beats the good old IBM 3270 font. https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
I humbly beg to differ. This is the terminal and editor font I use: http://www.dafont.com/nouveau-ibm.font
Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code
#127Sorry, but nothing beats the good old IBM 3270 font. https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
I see your mainframe and raise you a dec mini running UNIX
Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code
#128Sorry, but nothing beats the good old IBM 3270 font. https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
I see your mainframe and raise you a dec mini running UNIX http://www.sensi.org/~svo/glasstty/
... admittedly not great for small sizes due to the striping, but awesome for a relazing at a big giant terminal window and doing various simple things.
Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
I see your mainframe and raise you a dec mini running UNIX http://www.sensi.org/~svo/glasstty/
... admittedly not great for small sizes due to the striping, but awesome for a relazing at a big giant terminal window and doing various simple things.
plus it is the font of unix, essentially.
Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code
#130Does anyone like the way they've done the dotted zero? I've always disliked it personally. If they offered a slashed version I would definitely try it out.
No! It's an Abomination^TM Keep stuff out of the middle of my zeros, please. The circle surrounding nothing wonderfully symbolizes a subtle concept. Drop a dot in hole and now what are you symbolizing? A nice golf shot? When you put a slash across it are you warning me away? No, no. I prefer my voids empty, thanks very much.
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