Random topic: What script font do you like/use?

me at jerrydaniels.com me at jerrydaniels.com
Tue Sep 20 22:36:26 EDT 2016


I use Typewalk Mono 1915 Medium for the most part. They have a thin as well. I use thin and medium in my own editors and medium in the native one.

I am a former Verdana user for the exact reasons you stated, Jeanne. Good luck on your quest!

Best, Jerry

On Sep 20, 2016, 8:32 PM -0500, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto <revolution at jaedworks.com>, wrote:
> I've used Andale Mono by preference, but I don't have the bold, and
> so on versions of LC after 5.x, bolding for comments and keywords
> doesn't show up in the script editor. (Bah.)
>
> I liked it because it was:
> 1) clean-looking with a good x-height
> 2) has easily distinguishable lowercase l, capital I, and number 1,
> and zero and O
>
> I thought about just buying the bold, but I've been experimenting
> with other fonts. I tried Verdana for a while-it's not monospaced,
> but fairly wide and very clean-looking-but it turns out that I prefer
> monospaced fonts better for reading code. Maybe just because I'm so
> used to them that non-monospaced fonts look weird in that context.
> Source Code Pro is appealing.
>
> -----
>
> So...
>
> What fonts do you like best for code?
> Or does everybody just fall back on Courier? ;-)
>
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