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SKAN
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 Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:26 pm Post subject: An Excellent Font for Program/Text Editor |
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I highly recommend Dina font as the font for your Program/Text Editor 
SnapShot of PSPad set with Dina-Regular-10 Point [ Dina_SnapShot.gif (18.9kb), Res:640x480 ]
Download Dina Font (18kb)
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Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-Roman-10 Point [ Bitstream_Vera_Sans_Mono_SnapShot.gif (21.8kb), Res:640x480 ]
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono is recommended by Serenity. See the post below for download.
SnapShot of PSPad set with Andale Mono-Regular-10 Point [ Andale_Mono_SnapShot.gif (18.9kb), Res:640x480 ]
Andale Mono is recommended by PhiLho. See the post by JSLover for download.
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PhiLho
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:10 am Post subject: |
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Mmm, a bitmap font... I am not fan of these, even if the given sizes (8, 9, 10pts) are OK for most uses.
Sometime I zoom with the mouse wheel, I fear they look ugly at larger sizes.
Given the size and the samples, I suppose this font doesn't have accented chars. I no longer comment in French, even less write variable and function names in French (I did that for a large Visual Basic program...), but I can still write messages and GUI elements in French. For most programming languages, I would just select another font for the strings, but in AHK, it is harder to separate strings from the other stuff...
Thank you for pointing it out, but I will stick to my Andale Mono (using Lucida Sans Typewriter if I need some variation...).
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SKAN
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:40 am Post subject: |
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Dear PhiLho,
I was using the font "Courier New" with Metapad before, and Dina looks better.
BTW, I`ve just tried Andale Mono, It looks Nice!
Thanks for the info.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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Andale Mono! Andale Mono!...recently I've heard nothing but Andale Mono...so I went Googling & it started to look like it was another dumb pay-font (can't ANYTHING be free?), but it turns out it is a little free-ish...
...(ps...it don't look that bad {but I didn't install it yet})...now the real question is...where is Arial Rounded MT Bold?...or Arial Rounded MT...(I've always wondered about a non-bold version...is there one?).
BTW...I use Fixedsys in (a heavily customized {to REALLY look like Notepad}) Notepad2 for AHK/Text editing...
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Chris
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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I just changed the forum's "code" sections to prefer Andale Mono over Courier. So if your PC has that font, hopefully code sections will look a little nicer now.
But there's also the font size issue: it's currently set to 75% instead of 11px, but that's subject to change depending on feedback in the topic Better font for code (simple CSS edit) |
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Serenity
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Bitstream Vera Sans Mono looks quite similar to Andale Mono, it is also free.
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Laszlo
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks, Serenity! This font has the largest difference between "I", "l" and "1" I have seen so far, good looking and the numerical "0" is clearly marked. I made it my default. |
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SKAN
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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More recommendations please
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| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 1:59 am Post subject: |
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| Here's a site that contains a list of monospace programmer's fonts, sorted from best to worst (according to their tastes): http://www.lowing.org/fonts/ |
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PhiLho
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| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 9:55 am Post subject: |
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Yes, I forgot to mention it, thanks for reminding.
It is slightly bolder, and doesn't look good (for me) on some systems.
Perhaps I am just accustomed to Andale Mono. I use the Bitstream font when I work on Linux (still with SciTE...).
AFAIK, Vera Sans Mono, like the other Vera fonts, took a lot of inspiration from existing fonts (including Andale Mono, formerly Monotype.com).
That's not bad, these are good fonts, and as you point out, they are free.
@Chris: thank you for this page! I spent lot of time searching free TrueType monospace fonts, and even thought I have quite a collection now, this page has even more
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| theres a good Consolas font for Vista. and just grab a PCF2FON to convert unix format to win. |
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Serenity
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There are some screenshots of the Consolas font here.
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jroad
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| Quote: | http://www.fontsville.com/downloads/93071_27859
By far my favourite, and I've spent a long time researching |
Hi, I took a look at this font and found that 0 (zero) and capital letter O look too similar and a casual user would have trouble distinguishing between the 1 (the number) and lower l (the letter).
Just my $.02. |
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