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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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.
"...we are disempowered to cultivate in their communities an inclination to assimilate to our culture." - Stan Shannon.
Ok. It installed at home for some reason. I'm setup now! nice font! ...Steve
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I had Consolas at 10pt - changed it to 11 and now my eyes don't hurt as much any more. :-)
Regards, Nish
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Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*)Do you wear glasses? If 10pt hurts your eyes maybe you should have them checked out. I use Consolas 8pt on a 14" LCD and my eyes don't get sore, but my contact lenses have been my best friend. Well, most of the time.
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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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More often than not the rendering goes for a ball below 8pt.
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Do you wear glasses? If 10pt hurts your eyes maybe you should have them checked out. I use Consolas 8pt on a 14" LCD and my eyes don't get sore, but my contact lenses have been my best friend. Well, most of the time.
Brady Kelly wrote:
Do you wear glasses?
Nope - but my eyesight seems to be diminishing - I can't read road signs as far ahead as my wife can. Though I think her eye sight is abonormally good.
Brady Kelly wrote:
I use Consolas 8pt on a 14" LCD and my eyes don't get sore, but my contact lenses have been my best friend. Well, most of the time.
I have a 19" LCD at work but I also use a rather high resolution. So 10pts would be rather small - but 11pts is a tad too big; I switched back to 10pts. I wish there was a 10.5 option.
Regards, Nish
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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.
I have it installed in VS03. It looks like blurry puke there. X| Most of the vertical strokes on my plat panel are 1.5 pixel wide (a black next to a medium gray) and turn out muddy, the CRTs pixels are smaller so I can't tell exactly what's going on, but it's worse mess there too.
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