Best Fixed Width Font
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Lucida Console. I like it much better than Courier New because it does not have that excessive "typewriter" look to it (all those serifs): 12345678901234567890123456789012 This is a Lucida Console example 12345678901234567890123456789 This is a Courier New example The only warning is that it is a little hard sometimes to tell the difference between some upper and lowercase characters, like w & W. But I find it much easier on the eyes because I use a "reversed-contrast" setup (light characters on a dark blue background); the serifs in Courier New tend to blend/blur into the background for me. Peace! -=- James Tip for inexperienced drivers: "Professional Driver on Closed Course" does not mean "your Dumb Ass on a Public Road"!
Articles -- Products: Delete FXP Files & Check FavoritesLucida Console is great. I can't code in anything else.
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Hey all, What font do you all use for your fixed width work? What do you use to code in, for your consoles, etc.? I'm wondering because I'm configuring a new computer and wondering what font I should use for that sort of stuff. -- Adam "If you can't beat your computer in chess, try kickboxing"
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i prefer ProggyClean, and sometimes use CourierNew (in jEdit editor which can't use proggyclean). proggy clean and other proggy variants: http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download[^] sheldon and profont: http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/[^] triskweline: http://www.netalive.org/tinkering/triskweline/[^] there is also an extensive list here: http://keithdevens.com/wiki/ProgrammerFonts[^]
Zdeslav Vojkovic wrote: proggy clean Cool, I'll try out the square one for a while and see if it grows on me.
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Lucida Console. I like it much better than Courier New because it does not have that excessive "typewriter" look to it (all those serifs): 12345678901234567890123456789012 This is a Lucida Console example 12345678901234567890123456789 This is a Courier New example The only warning is that it is a little hard sometimes to tell the difference between some upper and lowercase characters, like w & W. But I find it much easier on the eyes because I use a "reversed-contrast" setup (light characters on a dark blue background); the serifs in Courier New tend to blend/blur into the background for me. Peace! -=- James Tip for inexperienced drivers: "Professional Driver on Closed Course" does not mean "your Dumb Ass on a Public Road"!
Articles -- Products: Delete FXP Files & Check FavoritesLucinda is too early 90's for me. It reminds me of bad Pascal programming books. cheers, Chris Maunder
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Hey - I think I've just found my new favourite console font. Nice link. [Edit: $22 for a font?! :omg:] cheers, Chris Maunder
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Hey - I think I've just found my new favourite console font. Nice link. [Edit: $22 for a font?! :omg:] cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: [Edit: $22 for a font?! ] Just divide that by the number of times you open a text editor in a year. :)
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Hey - I think I've just found my new favourite console font. Nice link. [Edit: $22 for a font?! :omg:] cheers, Chris Maunder
Try designing one *correctly* and you'll appreciate how friggin hard it is to get right. I was blown away at all the different things you need to account for to do a good font, especially if you add any level of unicode support. ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned
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Lucinda is too early 90's for me. It reminds me of bad Pascal programming books. cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: It reminds me of bad Pascal programming books. Well, I can remember when Pascal was a step up from what I was doing; BASIC on a C= Vic-20! (Oh, Pascal!, anyone? :)) Peace! -=- James Tip for inexperienced drivers: "Professional Driver on Closed Course" does not mean "your Dumb Ass on a Public Road"!
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Chris Maunder wrote: It reminds me of bad Pascal programming books. Well, I can remember when Pascal was a step up from what I was doing; BASIC on a C= Vic-20! (Oh, Pascal!, anyone? :)) Peace! -=- James Tip for inexperienced drivers: "Professional Driver on Closed Course" does not mean "your Dumb Ass on a Public Road"!
Articles -- Products: Delete FXP Files & Check FavoritesJames R. Twine wrote: Oh, Pascal!, anyone? :-D I do little Pascal programing now... because of school. Recently, it was Gauss elimination ;) Actually Pascal was my first programming language (except little playing with BASIC - bt I was sooo young and self-taught, no real algorithms, just playing with PRINT :-O) on highschool, bt (2?) years ago I moved to C++/C#. Is it OK when I fell nostalgy programing in pascal? After only 2 years(!) with C++/C#? I am 19! :confused: best regards, David 'DNH' Nohejl Never forget: "Stay kul and happy" (I.A.)
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Hey all, What font do you all use for your fixed width work? What do you use to code in, for your consoles, etc.? I'm wondering because I'm configuring a new computer and wondering what font I should use for that sort of stuff. -- Adam "If you can't beat your computer in chess, try kickboxing"
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I always use Courier New 9pt. Anything else is just not right;P
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Lucida Console. I like it much better than Courier New because it does not have that excessive "typewriter" look to it (all those serifs): 12345678901234567890123456789012 This is a Lucida Console example 12345678901234567890123456789 This is a Courier New example The only warning is that it is a little hard sometimes to tell the difference between some upper and lowercase characters, like w & W. But I find it much easier on the eyes because I use a "reversed-contrast" setup (light characters on a dark blue background); the serifs in Courier New tend to blend/blur into the background for me. Peace! -=- James Tip for inexperienced drivers: "Professional Driver on Closed Course" does not mean "your Dumb Ass on a Public Road"!
Articles -- Products: Delete FXP Files & Check FavoritesJames R. Twine wrote: I use a "reversed-contrast" setup (light characters on a dark blue background); I *still* to this day think that the ultimate color scheme for programming was the old green glowing letters on a black background. The first computer I ever programmed was a Commodore SuperPet and it had a built in black and green monitor and even years later I used to set my Borland C compiler editor to use the same colors. For some reason Windows wore me down though and I succumbed to the black and white, but just for old time's sake I'm going to see how easy it is to make visual studio do green on black for the day tomorrow.
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Hey all, What font do you all use for your fixed width work? What do you use to code in, for your consoles, etc.? I'm wondering because I'm configuring a new computer and wondering what font I should use for that sort of stuff. -- Adam "If you can't beat your computer in chess, try kickboxing"
These guys are all a bunch of sissies. Use a bar code font.
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Hey all, What font do you all use for your fixed width work? What do you use to code in, for your consoles, etc.? I'm wondering because I'm configuring a new computer and wondering what font I should use for that sort of stuff. -- Adam "If you can't beat your computer in chess, try kickboxing"