The Truth About Fonts

[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:

------------------------------ Author of Primary ROleplaying SysTem How do I take my coffee? Black as midnight on a moonless night. War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.

[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.

[Bruce Patin]

There are such fonts, because I've seen lots of zeros with slashes through them to distinguish them from Ohs. I'll have to start a major search and add a page to my documentation about which fonts do what.

[RafagaX]

I'm the hand of God... :cool:

CEO at: - Rafaga Systems - Para Facturas - Modern Components for the moment...

[StatementTerminator]

Which god, Loki? Comic Sans really says: "I should not be in a position of responsibility" :P

[rgalten]

I love this...so true. thank you. may I borrow it?