All this talk about fonts, I use ProFont and it looks fantastic. I used to use Monaco and other similar typefaces but they just couldn't cut it (whether it was anti-aliasing problems or just not being able to really tell what some characters were). ProFont totally fixed that.
I suggest that everyone at least give it a go for a while and see what they think too. I believe there is even a link on the TM site for ProFont.
Mike
PS - I am in no way affiliated with the makers of ProFont, I just really like it ;-)
On 11/24/04 2:14 AM, "Jeroen van der Ham" jeroen@je-ju.net wrote:
On 24-11-2004 01:53, Michael Stillwell wrote:
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.
You are right, the problem is with Monaco, other fonts do display the italics better. But I must say that I really like the look of Monaco.
But my opinion of anti-aliasing still stands. I have no idea why anyone would want anti-aliasing, because all the letters seem blurred. (Perhaps they just want that reading-the-newspaper-on-monday-morning-after-a-rough-weekend feeling back when coding, I dunno)
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