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?
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. ;)
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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?
Default or Consolas 9pt with sligthly blue background. jhaga
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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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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
You think this is a Seinfeld episode?
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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. ;)
Could you put up that file for the rest of us who is still using Vs2003? Just to try out :)
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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. ;)
Dang. That setup.exe is givin' me: The wizard was interrupted before the Consolas Font Family could be completely installed. Sheesh. The .TTF files would be cool :) It's not like I'm gonna go sell em or somethin' :rolleyes: ...Steve
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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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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
You think this is a Seinfeld episode?
:laugh:
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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?
based on a similiar discussion a few months ago I've switched to Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. It's zero is a circle with a dot in the middle .. while not the same as a slash .. it still gets the point across. As far as the size goes, it depends how I'm feeling that day .. most of the time I run at 8pt but sometimes have to switch to 10. I have 3 buttons on my tool bar that map to macros that allow me to quickly switch between 8, 10 and 12 pt .. the 12 pt comes in handy when reviewing code with another person . The macros are all like :
Sub LMSetFont_8() Dim props As EnvDTE.Properties props = DTE.Properties("FontsAndColors", "TextEditor") props.Item("FontSize").let_Value(8) End Sub
btw, thats for 2003 .. I havent switched to 2005 yet so dont know what, if any, changes are required for that IDE.Rocket science is more fun when you actually have rockets - US Navy ad
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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?
Courier 10 (not Courier New) I've tried just about every other "programmer" font and have strongly disliked them all.
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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?
Courier New 9pt
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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
I use Consolas on VS 2003 and IBM WSAD, and I love it. Although, it seems to look even better on VS 2005. :~
Cheers, Vikram.
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I use Consolas 12 pt on both VS 2003 and IBM WSAD on a 17 inch CRT at 1152 x 864. I did try 1280 x 1024 but it hurt my eyes. :sigh:
Cheers, Vikram.
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