What font and font size do you use in your IDE?
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It occurred to me today that I am getting old. My eyes are tired after years of programming and half a dozen pair of increasingly thick eyeglasses. So, today I bumped up my font size in Visual Studio. After years of developing with the smallest font size capable of showing the difference between a parenthesis and a curly brace I have changed to 10pt Lucida Console. So it made me think to ask... What font and font size do you use in your IDE?
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It occurred to me today that I am getting old. My eyes are tired after years of programming and half a dozen pair of increasingly thick eyeglasses. So, today I bumped up my font size in Visual Studio. After years of developing with the smallest font size capable of showing the difference between a parenthesis and a curly brace I have changed to 10pt Lucida Console. So it made me think to ask... What font and font size do you use in your IDE?
If I'm working at my desk and using my 19x12 monitor, I use 11 pt. It's easier on my eyes than 10, and at 11 pt I can still see 120 columns of code, which is plenty. If I'm coding on my laptop without an external monitor, I use 10 pt.
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It occurred to me today that I am getting old. My eyes are tired after years of programming and half a dozen pair of increasingly thick eyeglasses. So, today I bumped up my font size in Visual Studio. After years of developing with the smallest font size capable of showing the difference between a parenthesis and a curly brace I have changed to 10pt Lucida Console. So it made me think to ask... What font and font size do you use in your IDE?
Still using the default... It is amazing how small the print is getting on products and newpapers the older I get, guess it is for them to save ink :)
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I had Consolas at 10pt - changed it to 11 and now my eyes don't hurt as much any more. :-)
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
Lucida Console 8pt
8pt is too small for me - maybe the cold Toronto weather shrunk your fonts :-D
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Ditto. Always.
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DANG! I'd kill for a decent font... But this is a setup.exe for VS2005 only? Why can't they just let me download the font???:sigh: ClearType Font Collection Coming soon to a screen near you. Please bookmark this page for future information about the ClearType font collection. Last updated 4 October 2004. Argh!!! :mad:
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
Lucida Console 8pt
8pt is too small for me - maybe the cold Toronto weather shrunk your fonts :-D
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*)Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
maybe the cold Toronto weather shrunk your fonts
You think this is a Seinfeld episode? :) Actually I find Lucida Console 8pt to be ideal even at home (where I have a smaller monitor). I've always preferred a smaller font and consequently increased screen real-estate. Although I'd find anything less than 8pt hard to read. /ravi
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It occurred to me today that I am getting old. My eyes are tired after years of programming and half a dozen pair of increasingly thick eyeglasses. So, today I bumped up my font size in Visual Studio. After years of developing with the smallest font size capable of showing the difference between a parenthesis and a curly brace I have changed to 10pt Lucida Console. So it made me think to ask... What font and font size do you use in your IDE?
Heh, kidding, Consolas 11pt of course. :rolleyes:
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Heh, kidding, Consolas 11pt of course. :rolleyes:
hey now, i do use Comic Sans... 10pt though
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DANG! I'd kill for a decent font... But this is a setup.exe for VS2005 only? Why can't they just let me download the font???:sigh: ClearType Font Collection Coming soon to a screen near you. Please bookmark this page for future information about the ClearType font collection. Last updated 4 October 2004. Argh!!! :mad:
You can run the setup and then select it manually in VS6, if that's what you're using. But it looks terrible; VS6 doesn't render it properly at all. So yeah, i wouldn't bother.
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It occurred to me today that I am getting old. My eyes are tired after years of programming and half a dozen pair of increasingly thick eyeglasses. So, today I bumped up my font size in Visual Studio. After years of developing with the smallest font size capable of showing the difference between a parenthesis and a curly brace I have changed to 10pt Lucida Console. So it made me think to ask... What font and font size do you use in your IDE?
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono - 11 pt. It is very similar to Consolas (actually I think I should say that Consolas is similar to BVSM), but I find it more readable.
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It occurred to me today that I am getting old. My eyes are tired after years of programming and half a dozen pair of increasingly thick eyeglasses. So, today I bumped up my font size in Visual Studio. After years of developing with the smallest font size capable of showing the difference between a parenthesis and a curly brace I have changed to 10pt Lucida Console. So it made me think to ask... What font and font size do you use in your IDE?
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It occurred to me today that I am getting old. My eyes are tired after years of programming and half a dozen pair of increasingly thick eyeglasses. So, today I bumped up my font size in Visual Studio. After years of developing with the smallest font size capable of showing the difference between a parenthesis and a curly brace I have changed to 10pt Lucida Console. So it made me think to ask... What font and font size do you use in your IDE?
Tom Welch wrote:
What font and font size do you use in your IDE?
kids these days.... Back in the day....[^] seriously though... I adjust to what is comfortable for that monitor. So I have a different setup on 24"/30"/20"/19"/17" environments. When it is comfortable, I leave it. :)
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You can run the setup and then select it manually in VS6, if that's what you're using. But it looks terrible; VS6 doesn't render it properly at all. So yeah, i wouldn't bother.
hmmm, i'm on vs2003 - wonder if that renders it ok? I go tools/options environments/fonts&colors and pick the font? I don't see "consolas" or whatever in the list... am i screwed on vs2003, too? thanks :-O ...Steve
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I was using Anonymous @ 10pt. It took a while to find a decent mono-spaced font with slashed zeros. I've been converted to Consolas. Thanks
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i want slashed zeros and easily distiguishable lowercase L versus the number one... Anybody?
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It occurred to me today that I am getting old. My eyes are tired after years of programming and half a dozen pair of increasingly thick eyeglasses. So, today I bumped up my font size in Visual Studio. After years of developing with the smallest font size capable of showing the difference between a parenthesis and a curly brace I have changed to 10pt Lucida Console. So it made me think to ask... What font and font size do you use in your IDE?
Proggy Tiny True Type. with slashed zero. but in only looks good in one size(forget which one. 12 i think). looks very small but very easy to read. cant rememebr the site, but a google search for "proggy fonts" will do it;)
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hmmm, i'm on vs2003 - wonder if that renders it ok? I go tools/options environments/fonts&colors and pick the font? I don't see "consolas" or whatever in the list... am i screwed on vs2003, too? thanks :-O ...Steve
No. Shouldn't be. Check that it installed properly. If not, then I'll put the ttf files up for you to download. Just keep it on the DL. ;)