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What is the most aesthetic font you know?

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  • C CodeWraith

    5 x 3 pixels[^], what do you need more? 3 x 3[^] is a little too spartan, even for my taste.

    I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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    Forogar
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    We have Windows 10 on a 24" wide screen so we need a font that is 64x96 at least! It would never do to have more than three words per screen!

    - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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    • L Lost User

      Consolas for everything.

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      Forogar
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      Yay Consolas! ...although FixedSys is good sometimes.

      - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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      • C CodeWraith

        5 x 3 pixels[^], what do you need more? 3 x 3[^] is a little too spartan, even for my taste.

        I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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        Mike Hankey
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        Thanks for the links, always looking for fonts for embedded stuff and these are good!

        They call me different but the truth is they're all the same! JaxCoder.com

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        • G Gubtill

          Below are my preferences… For monospace: 1-Liberation Sans Mono 2-Inconsolata 3-American Typewriter (Decorative) For Serif Font: 1-Baskerville (for long texts) 2-Didot Bold (for titles) 3-Cochin, Rockwell (Decorative) For Sans Serif: 1-Optima (modern feel) 2-Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Lato 3-Futura/Gill Sans/Avenir Condensed (Decorative)

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          Lost User
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          Gubtill wrote:

          For monospace:

          Anonymous Pro - Mark Simonson[^]

          Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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          • G Gubtill

            Below are my preferences… For monospace: 1-Liberation Sans Mono 2-Inconsolata 3-American Typewriter (Decorative) For Serif Font: 1-Baskerville (for long texts) 2-Didot Bold (for titles) 3-Cochin, Rockwell (Decorative) For Sans Serif: 1-Optima (modern feel) 2-Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Lato 3-Futura/Gill Sans/Avenir Condensed (Decorative)

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            Rick York
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            I like Fira Mono for code editing.

            "They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

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            • J Johnny J

              Except for angry notes in the office. You are required by law to use Comic Sans for that! :doh:

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              OriginalGriff
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              Nope: Crazy Killer Font | dafont.com[^] Works really well for inter office memos as well*. * "Works well" as in "they don't bother you again"

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              • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                Nope: Crazy Killer Font | dafont.com[^] Works really well for inter office memos as well*. * "Works well" as in "they don't bother you again"

                "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                W Balboos GHB
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                Interesting. If the soapbox ever comes back, that should be the only font available.

                Ravings en masse^

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                • G Gubtill

                  Below are my preferences… For monospace: 1-Liberation Sans Mono 2-Inconsolata 3-American Typewriter (Decorative) For Serif Font: 1-Baskerville (for long texts) 2-Didot Bold (for titles) 3-Cochin, Rockwell (Decorative) For Sans Serif: 1-Optima (modern feel) 2-Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Lato 3-Futura/Gill Sans/Avenir Condensed (Decorative)

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                  Jacquers
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                  My VS is set to use Consolas. The new MS terminal font doesn't look too bad: [Cascadia Code | Windows Command Line](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/cascadia-code/)

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                  • G Gubtill

                    Below are my preferences… For monospace: 1-Liberation Sans Mono 2-Inconsolata 3-American Typewriter (Decorative) For Serif Font: 1-Baskerville (for long texts) 2-Didot Bold (for titles) 3-Cochin, Rockwell (Decorative) For Sans Serif: 1-Optima (modern feel) 2-Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Lato 3-Futura/Gill Sans/Avenir Condensed (Decorative)

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                    Gary Wheeler
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                    I'm a classicist: Monospace: Visual Studio: Consolas Everything else: Courier New Sans Serif: Arial Serif Blech. I hate serif'ed fonts.

                    Software Zen: delete this;

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                    • G Gubtill

                      Below are my preferences… For monospace: 1-Liberation Sans Mono 2-Inconsolata 3-American Typewriter (Decorative) For Serif Font: 1-Baskerville (for long texts) 2-Didot Bold (for titles) 3-Cochin, Rockwell (Decorative) For Sans Serif: 1-Optima (modern feel) 2-Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Lato 3-Futura/Gill Sans/Avenir Condensed (Decorative)

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                      Sander Rossel
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                      Webdings, it has aliens, Spiderman, the Mona Lisa, race cars... I love those things in movies, so why not in fonts? ;)

                      Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                      • G Gubtill

                        Below are my preferences… For monospace: 1-Liberation Sans Mono 2-Inconsolata 3-American Typewriter (Decorative) For Serif Font: 1-Baskerville (for long texts) 2-Didot Bold (for titles) 3-Cochin, Rockwell (Decorative) For Sans Serif: 1-Optima (modern feel) 2-Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Lato 3-Futura/Gill Sans/Avenir Condensed (Decorative)

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                        dandy72
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                        I don't know, your samples all look pretty much the same to me. Oh, wait...you expect *me* to track them down to form an opinion?

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                        • C CodeWraith

                          5 x 3 pixels[^], what do you need more? 3 x 3[^] is a little too spartan, even for my taste.

                          I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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                          Greg Utas
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                          That 5x3 is a rather remarkable achievement. It could be improved by not bothering with differences between upper and lower case and disambiguating a few letters from numbers.

                          <p><a href="https://github.com/GregUtas/robust-services-core/blob/master/README.md">Robust Services Core</a>
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                          • L Lost User

                            Consolas for everything.

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                            PIEBALDconsult
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                            Consolas is filth.

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                            • G Gubtill

                              Below are my preferences… For monospace: 1-Liberation Sans Mono 2-Inconsolata 3-American Typewriter (Decorative) For Serif Font: 1-Baskerville (for long texts) 2-Didot Bold (for titles) 3-Cochin, Rockwell (Decorative) For Sans Serif: 1-Optima (modern feel) 2-Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Lato 3-Futura/Gill Sans/Avenir Condensed (Decorative)

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                              PIEBALDconsult
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                              I don't really care what my hammer looks like, it just has to do the job.

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                              • L Lost User

                                Gubtill wrote:

                                For monospace:

                                Anonymous Pro - Mark Simonson[^]

                                Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                                Chris Maunder
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                                That's a beautiful font. A pity the EULA means it can't be used in web apps :(

                                cheers Chris Maunder

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                                • Greg UtasG Greg Utas

                                  That 5x3 is a rather remarkable achievement. It could be improved by not bothering with differences between upper and lower case and disambiguating a few letters from numbers.

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                                  CodeWraith
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                                  My old computer has a 64 x 32 or 64 x 64 pixel resolution and a 3x 4 pixel font (all upper case) was used for such things as Tiny BASIC. Memory was a big issue and the font and the routines to draw strings into display memory bloated up the interpreter from 2k to 3k, leaving you with only 1k left for your BASIC programs. My version of this encodes the full set 0f 96 printable ASCII characters in just 288 bytes and about 256 bytes for the drawing routines, a little over 1/2 k total. My font is not monospaced, so I usually get more than 16 characters per line. As a bonus, the routine that draws the characters can also be used to draw sprites. Readability is quite a problem with this sort of fonts. You don't have a pixel to spare, but some characters (like Q, M, W, # or &) need a width of 4 or 5. I find it readable and useful enough for a computer from 1976: COSMAC Elf screenshot[^]

                                  I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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                                  • C CodeWraith

                                    My old computer has a 64 x 32 or 64 x 64 pixel resolution and a 3x 4 pixel font (all upper case) was used for such things as Tiny BASIC. Memory was a big issue and the font and the routines to draw strings into display memory bloated up the interpreter from 2k to 3k, leaving you with only 1k left for your BASIC programs. My version of this encodes the full set 0f 96 printable ASCII characters in just 288 bytes and about 256 bytes for the drawing routines, a little over 1/2 k total. My font is not monospaced, so I usually get more than 16 characters per line. As a bonus, the routine that draws the characters can also be used to draw sprites. Readability is quite a problem with this sort of fonts. You don't have a pixel to spare, but some characters (like Q, M, W, # or &) need a width of 4 or 5. I find it readable and useful enough for a computer from 1976: COSMAC Elf screenshot[^]

                                    I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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                                    Greg Utas
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                                    Thanks for the screenshot! It did some good to grow up on systems like this. CPUs are now so fast, and memory so cheap, that you get folks developing systems that need to scale using approaches like Thread Per User, Thread Per Request, or even Thread Per Object. And then wondering why the system tips over.

                                    <p><a href="https://github.com/GregUtas/robust-services-core/blob/master/README.md">Robust Services Core</a>
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                                    • L Lost User

                                      Gubtill wrote:

                                      For monospace:

                                      Anonymous Pro - Mark Simonson[^]

                                      Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                                      milo xml
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                                      Nice font. Thanks!

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                                      • G Gubtill

                                        Below are my preferences… For monospace: 1-Liberation Sans Mono 2-Inconsolata 3-American Typewriter (Decorative) For Serif Font: 1-Baskerville (for long texts) 2-Didot Bold (for titles) 3-Cochin, Rockwell (Decorative) For Sans Serif: 1-Optima (modern feel) 2-Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Lato 3-Futura/Gill Sans/Avenir Condensed (Decorative)

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                                        obermd
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                                        Arial, Lucida Console, and Courier New are the most legible to me. If find the defaults in MS-Office to be horrible for readability.

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                                        • G Gubtill

                                          Below are my preferences… For monospace: 1-Liberation Sans Mono 2-Inconsolata 3-American Typewriter (Decorative) For Serif Font: 1-Baskerville (for long texts) 2-Didot Bold (for titles) 3-Cochin, Rockwell (Decorative) For Sans Serif: 1-Optima (modern feel) 2-Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Lato 3-Futura/Gill Sans/Avenir Condensed (Decorative)

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                                          srife
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                                          I really like the Hack font for coding. No mixing up O0, Il, or any other characters. GitHub - source-foundry/Hack: A typeface designed for source code[^]

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