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.
The other thing is that the italics is mostly superfluous: the aim is to differentiate text from surrounding text and most of the time, this is already achieved by using a different colour and using italics as well does not really help.
Except for people with low color perception or color-blindness.
Ah yes, I forgot about that. But turning this on only for that small group seems a bit odd, that is, if I'm not the only with this opinion about text-decoration.
How do other users feel about this? And does anyone else have tips for increasing usability of syntax highlight bundles?
More contrast!!! More style-change (i.e. bold/italic/underline)!!!
Personally I do have very low color perception, so for me the styles is the main cue, which is also why the default (Objective-)C(++) files had a light grey background which allowed for both black and white text :)
heh :) I'm not against more contrast, I just don't really like the way italics looks on screen. But using bold or underline is fine with me.
Jeroen.