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

[Peter TB Brett]

On 21/09/2016 02:31, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto 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.

I currently use Source Code Pro.  I find Courier nearly unreadable, 
unfortunately.  In the past (by which I mean pre-2009) I used to mostly 
use the "MiscFixed" X11 bitmap font.

                             Peter

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Dr Peter Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com>
LiveCode Technical Project Manager

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