On Apr 24 2007, at 04:47, Jacob Rus wrote:
Mark Eli Kalderon wrote:
On Apr 24 2007, at 02:38, Jacob Rus wrote:
Yeah, slashed (or dotted) 0 is a must for a code font. It's too bad because otherwise Inconsolata is great, especially printed.
Check out Consolas, which inspired Inconsolata. It can be downloaded here:
Um... Consolas and Inconsolata look nothing alike. One is blocky and gross, and the other is very elegant (I'm highly biased about these things).
Personal preferences aside, while Inconsolata is not a direct variant of Consolas the way that DejaVu is a variant of Bitstream, but, as Ralph Levien the designer of Inconsolata writes:
Inconsolata draws from many inspirations and sources. I was
particularly struck by the beauty of Luc(as) de Groot's Consolas, which is his monospaced design for Microsoft's upcoming Vista release.