programming fonts

[René Micout]

ProFont is "inelegant", it "drool", I prefer Courier...
René from Paris

Le 20 mars 09 à 02:12, Sarah Reichelt a écrit :

> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Richard Gaskin
> <ambassador at fourthworld.com> 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?
>
>
> I use Verdana 11pt in GLX2.
> I would prefer a mono-spaced font, but like you, I have rejected
> Courier & Monaco so I chose clarity over spacing.
>
> I might try ProFont as Mark suggests and see how that looks.
>
> Cheers,
> Sarah
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