What is the most aesthetic font you know?

W Balboos GHB

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

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Jacquers

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/)

Gary Wheeler

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

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Sander Rossel

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

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dandy72

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?

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.

PIEBALDconsult

Consolas is filth.

PIEBALDconsult

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

Chris Maunder

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

cheers Chris Maunder

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[^]

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Greg Utas

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.

milo xml

Nice font. Thanks!

obermd

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

srife

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[^]

Reelix

I'm personally a Verdana fan :)

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willichan

Hmm. Do I dare? I'm not dyslexic, but I am loving the OpenDyslexic font Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.