The Truth About Fonts

Kschuler

The Truth About Fonts[^] What's your favorite font?

Dalek Dave

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Single Step Debugger

Verdana forever!

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Colin Mullikin

Have you ever seen Helvetica[^]? We watched it in my data visualization class. As terrible as it sounds, it was actually quite interesting.

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glennPattonWork3

Heeeh! the Fonz not Font!

jeron1

So the missus IS right, I am the devil!

PIEBALDconsult

I'm pretty sure they mean "typeface".

Kschuler

Haven't seen it. But Netflix thinks I would give it almost 3 stars, so I put it on my queue.

Kschuler

I thought you were going to link to this font.[^]

Maximilien

Truly, I don't really care. I know when I do not like a font for a particular application, but when the font just works, I don't go look for what it is.

Nihil obstat

Ingo

Dalek Dave wrote:

Best of all fonts

Absolute! :cool:

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Rob Grainger

AHA, the Fonz of all Wisdom!

Mark_Wallace

Right. We should drown them in a font.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Fred Flams

My previous favourite: Verdana My current favourite: Segoe Sorry, I'm a desktop dev.....

Gary Wheeler

For anything except source code: Arial (Helvetica). I think serifs are the typeface equivalent of training wheels, and about as useful as tits on a boar. Source code: Consolas. I switch back and forth occasionally between Courier New and Consolas. Let the "Oh, that's so old school! I use 'Gorgenfragits Light with a Twist of Lemon', and it's perfect for coding" discussions begin. I thought Comic Sans was cute, until I found that one of the asshats I deal with in the home office uses it. Uses it as the default font in all his e-mails, including those sent outside the company. In blue.

Software Zen: delete this;

GenJerDan

Village[^]

YouTube and My Mu[sic], Films and Windows Programs, etc.

spencepk

Verdana, Tahoma, or... Wingdings :-D

Bruce Patin

Any font that makes it easy to distinguish 6, 8 and 9 from each other, and 1, l, I from each other, and 0, O from each other. I think I found one such font, but forgot what it was. Now, I'll have to go look for it. It's time to start considering aUI, the language of space.

StatementTerminator

Real programmers code in Courier using a mechanical keyboard for the teletype feel. Seriously though, if you aren't coding in a fixed-width font, you're doing it wrong. As for the front-end, I truly don't care, let the artsy-fartsy design guys worry about that.

Kschuler

I've been burnt by the 0 and O. Took me days to find it. Finally I copied my code and pasted it into an email to someone I was asking for help from...the email program used a different font that displayed the 0 and O differently. That one is definately a bugger. But I like a fixed-width font when coding, and I don't know of one that is both fixed-width and distinguishes those characters nicely.