On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:23:04 +0100, Jeroen van der Ham jeroen@je-ju.net wrote:
On 23-11-2004 14:10, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On Nov 23, 2004, at 10:59, Jeroen wrote:
My experience is that italics in most fixed-width fonts does not look that good and is bad for readability.
That's probably w/o anti-alias?
Indeed, I don't like anti-alias at all, because it makes all the letters look smudgy.
Are you also using Monaco? Monaco looks particularly bad not anti-aliased because it doesn't come in an italic version--the italic is faked, and whatever's doing the faking doesn't do a very good job. I find that Lucida Sans Typewriter is slightly better, though I do wish Monaco at 12pt, and not anti-aliased (my favourite combination for code) was more pleasing to the eye.
--M.