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An Excellent Font for Program/Text Editor

Started by SKAN , Feb 16 2006 10:26 PM

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SKAN
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Here's a site that contains a list of monospace programmer's fonts, sorted from best to worst (according to their tastes):
http://www.lowing.org/fonts/


#1 - Posted 16 February 2006 - 10:26 PM
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Mmm, a bitmap font... I am not fan of these, even if the given sizes (8, 9, 10pts) are OK for most uses.
Sometime I zoom with the mouse wheel, I fear they look ugly at larger sizes.

Given the size and the samples, I suppose this font doesn't have accented chars. I no longer comment in French, even less write variable and function names in French (I did that for a large Visual Basic program...), but I can still write messages and GUI elements in French. For most programming languages, I would just select another font for the strings, but in AHK, it is harder to separate strings from the other stuff...

Thank you for pointing it out, but I will stick to my Andale Mono (using Lucida Sans Typewriter if I need some variation...).
#2 - Posted 17 February 2006 - 09:10 AM
Posted Image vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")
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Dear PhiLho,
I was using the font "Courier New" with Metapad before, and Dina looks better.
BTW, I`ve just tried Andale Mono, It looks Nice!
Thanks for the info.
Regards :)
#3 - Posted 17 February 2006 - 09:40 AM
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Andale Mono! Andale Mono!...recently I've heard nothing but Andale Mono...so I went Googling & it started to look like it was another dumb pay-font (can't ANYTHING be free?), but it turns out it is a little free-ish...
Wikipedia - Andale Mono
sourceforge.net - corefonts - Download - Andale Mono (direct)

Posted Image...(ps...it don't look that bad {but I didn't install it yet})...now the real question is...where is Arial Rounded MT Bold?...or Arial Rounded MT...(I've always wondered about a non-bold version...is there one?).

BTW...I use Fixedsys in (a heavily customized {to REALLY look like Notepad}) Notepad2 for AHK/Text editing...
#4 - Posted 17 February 2006 - 01:19 PM
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I just changed the forum's "code" sections to prefer Andale Mono over Courier. So if your PC has that font, hopefully code sections will look a little nicer now.

But there's also the font size issue: it's currently set to 75% instead of 11px, but that's subject to change depending on feedback in the topic Better font for code (simple CSS edit)
#5 - Posted 17 February 2006 - 04:49 PM
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Bitstream Vera Sans Mono looks quite similar to Andale Mono, it is also free.
#6 - Posted 17 February 2006 - 05:16 PM
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Thanks, Serenity! This font has the largest difference between "I", "l" and "1" I have seen so far, good looking and the numerical "0" is clearly marked. I made it my default.
#7 - Posted 17 February 2006 - 07:27 PM
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More recommendations please :)
#8 - Posted 17 February 2006 - 08:30 PM
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Here's a site that contains a list of monospace programmer's fonts, sorted from best to worst (according to their tastes): <!-- m -->http://www.lowing.org/fonts/<!-- m -->
#9 - Posted 18 February 2006 - 01:59 AM
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Bitstream Vera Sans Mono looks quite similar to Andale Mono, it is also free.

Yes, I forgot to mention it, thanks for reminding.
It is slightly bolder, and doesn't look good (for me) on some systems.
Perhaps I am just accustomed to Andale Mono. I use the Bitstream font when I work on Linux (still with SciTE...).

AFAIK, Vera Sans Mono, like the other Vera fonts, took a lot of inspiration from existing fonts (including Andale Mono, formerly Monotype.com).
That's not bad, these are good fonts, and as you point out, they are free.

@Chris: thank you for this page! I spent lot of time searching free TrueType monospace fonts, and even thought I have quite a collection now, this page has even more :-)
#10 - Posted 18 February 2006 - 09:55 AM
Posted Image vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")
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Hi,

I made a screenshot of 18 monospaced fonts together to get a sense of what they look like.

The post is here:
<!-- m -->http://www.donationc... ... pic=2499.0<!-- m -->
#11 - Posted 19 February 2006 - 12:33 AM
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theres a good Consolas font for Vista. and just grab a PCF2FON to convert unix format to win.
#12 - Posted 22 February 2006 - 11:23 AM
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There are some screenshots of the Consolas font here.
#13 - Posted 23 February 2006 - 04:06 PM
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http://www.fontsvill...ads/93071_27859

By far my favourite, and I've spent a long time researching :)
#14 - Posted 03 March 2006 - 03:38 PM
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http://www.fontsville.com/downloads/93071_27859

By far my favourite, and I've spent a long time researching


Hi, I took a look at this font and found that 0 (zero) and capital letter O look too similar and a casual user would have trouble distinguishing between the 1 (the number) and lower l (the letter).

Just my $.02.
#15 - Posted 03 March 2006 - 04:17 PM
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