programming fonts

stephen barncard stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com
Thu Mar 19 14:06:18 EDT 2009


I'm using Tahoma  16 points in chalkboard GLX2.
Stephen Barncard
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2009/3/19 Mark Smith <lists at futilism.com>

> 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?
>>
>> --
>>  Richard Gaskin
>>  Fourth World
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