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I take this as confirmation of my choice- Consolas. 2nd favorite by a close margin, and it's usually already installed!
> it's usually already installed Only on Windows Vista/7/8.
You still use Windows ME?
Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders
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Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders
#72Increasingly, professional typeface designers working today are coders as well. The OpenType format for fonts allows designers to program font behaviour, often in pretty sophisticated ways. These range from standard typographic niceties like automatic substitution of a pre-defined sequence of glyphs with a ligature, to contextual substitutions of alternates to make a handwriting font more natural-looking, to even more creative explorations of the possibilities of the OpenType format.
In addition, many designers are taking advantage of scripting to automate parts of the design process. For example, Mark Simonson, the designer of the Anonymous Pro featured here, wrote a script to help you in generating pangrams: http://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/pangrammer-helper-...
This example is only tangentially related to the typeface design process, but if you're interested about the intersection of typeface design and technology, you can look up videos from the Robothon conferences to see what the possibilities are.
Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders
#73Been using Anonymous Pro for years, love it.
Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders
#74I really like this font at 9pt for the code as it becomes not antialiased. are there other pretty not antialiased fonts out there?
I suggest Envy Code R [http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-cod...]
It's not a bitmap font, but has a sharp, clean look.
Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
I take this as confirmation of my choice- Consolas. 2nd favorite by a close margin, and it's usually already installed!
I use Linux and install always Consolas. Programmers designing fonts is cute but it's not good idea. Lucas de Groot knew what he was doing.
I like Inconsolas for Linux instead of Consolas.
Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
> it's usually already installed Only on Windows Vista/7/8.
You still use Windows ME?
I pointed it out because many people use Windows XP, OS X, Android, or iOS. All those OSes (as well as UNIX clones and variants) don’t come with the font pre-installed.
Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
You still use Windows ME?
I pointed it out because many people use Windows XP, OS X, Android, or iOS. All those OSes (as well as UNIX clones and variants) don’t come with the font pre-installed.
But he/she said usually, not always. And yeah, a ton of people use windows 7/8 so he/she can say that.
Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
I pointed it out because many people use Windows XP, OS X, Android, or iOS. All those OSes (as well as UNIX clones and variants) don’t come with the font pre-installed.
But he/she said usually, not always. And yeah, a ton of people use windows 7/8 so he/she can say that.
A lot more people use the OSes I listed.
Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders
#79Re: Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders
#80Here'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'm afraid that the reason the best programming font in the world - Terminus - isn't in the top 5 is because of the terrible screenshot. :(