programming fonts

Mark Smith lists at futilism.com
Thu Mar 19 13:14:52 EDT 2009


I always used to use monaco at 9pt, too, but that doesn't seem so  
good on my MacBookPro.

I'm currently using ProFont <http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/ 
 >  at 10 or 11 pt, and liking it a lot.

Best,

Mark


On 19 Mar 2009, at 15:57, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Over the years I've found the Courier's serifs distracting on  
> screen, and Monaco's glyph shapes vaguely unpleasant at 12 pts  
> (used to use it all the time back when screen res was lower an 9pt  
> was acceptable).
>
> So over the last year I find myself using Andale Mono for most of  
> my scripting, and to my eye it's nearly ideal with one near-fatal  
> glitch: the descending tail on the comma is shorter than in most  
> fonts, and at a glance is difficult to distinguish from a period.
>
> I started to look around for a good programmer's font, but there  
> are just too many to download and evaluate them all so I thought  
> I'd check in with you folks here:
>
> What's your favorite font for use in your script editor?
>
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