I'm not sure if this relates to my system or a particular (undocumented) tweak in the latest build, but all the outstanding text peculiarities have cleared up.
For example, in ProFont 9pt anti-aliased I was seeing a lowercase 'L' being represented at double thickness (2px). This has all gone, and it's *beautiful*.
Along with all the other visual tweaks in the latest build, TextMate is really sweeping me away.
My dollars are going down today. New customer.
drew.
On Oct 18, 2004, at 12:30 AM, Drew McLellan wrote:
I'm not sure if this relates to my system or a particular (undocumented) tweak in the latest build, but all the outstanding text peculiarities have cleared up.
After reading this: http://typographi.com/000744.php
and trying lots of fonts, I got this: http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragma.htm
for which my eyes thank me.
its worked flawlessly in TM since day one.
On 20. okt 2004, at 4:04, Timothy Martens wrote:
After reading this: http://typographi.com/000744.php and trying lots of fonts, I got this: http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragma.htm for which my eyes thank me.
Looks great but yikes... pricy for poor students like me :-p.
Yeah!! Ouch. I think that ProFont (http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/) works well enough for me (except for the italic)! But thanks for the recommendation.
Chris
Sune Foldager wrote:
On 20. okt 2004, at 4:04, Timothy Martens wrote:
After reading this: http://typographi.com/000744.php and trying lots of fonts, I got this: http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragma.htm for which my eyes thank me.
Looks great but yikes... pricy for poor students like me :-p.
On Oct 19, 2004, at 5:06 PM, Sune Foldager wrote:
On 20. okt 2004, at 4:04, Timothy Martens wrote:
After reading this: http://typographi.com/000744.php and trying lots of fonts, I got this: http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragma.htm for which my eyes thank me.
Looks great but yikes... pricy for poor students like me :-p.
It was recently half price at MyFonts.com
On 10/19/04 9:04 PM, "Timothy Martens" timfm@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
After reading this: http://typographi.com/000744.php
and trying lots of fonts, I got this: http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragma.htm
for which my eyes thank me.
Thanks for this tip Tim. It looks like a nice font. I was taken back by the steep price as well. I did some searching and found what looks like the same font for almost half the price: US$62. http://www.fonts.com/findfonts/detail.asp?pid=413621
Just thought I'd point this out for other potential buyers.
Also, do you think you could post a screenshot of some Pragmata text at 14pt without anti-aliasing again? I'd much appreciate it. I prefer a slightly larger font size, but I like the crispness of non-anti-aliased fonts while coding.
Thanks, Simon
On 10/20/04 1:21 AM, "Simon Dorfman" EmailLists@SimonDorfman.com wrote:
Also, do you think you could post a screenshot of some Pragmata text at 14pt without anti-aliasing again? I'd much appreciate it. I prefer a slightly larger font size, but I like the crispness of non-anti-aliased fonts while coding.
Cancel that request, I found a 16pt preview here: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/fsd/pragmata/tt/index.html
I'm still on the fence about buying this. It's a lot of money for one font...
Simon
On 20/10/2004, at 5:14 PM, Simon Dorfman wrote:
Cancel that request, I found a 16pt preview here: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/fsd/pragmata/tt/index.html
I'm still on the fence about buying this. It's a lot of money for one font...
Can't you make do with ProFont or something else? I'd never pay that much for a programming-only font with so many other choices available for free or a few $'s, unless it did something outstanding that I could justify the cost with.
Personally, Pragmata doesn't entice me or offer anything new, so I'm not considering buying it at all.
Justin
On 10/20/04 2:32 AM, "Justin French" justin.french@indent.com.au wrote:
Can't you make do with ProFont or something else? I'd never pay that much for a programming-only font with so many other choices available for free or a few $'s, unless it did something outstanding that I could justify the cost with.
I'm currently using Monaco 13pt with anti-aliasing turned on. I'm working on a CRT 17" at 1152x864. I've tried ProFont and numerous others. ProFont looks good at 9pt. But that's too small for me. I'm still searching for coding font nirvana. A largeish (14pt), crisp, non-anti-aliased, font is what I'm looking for.
What's your font story? What font, size, non-/anti-alias, screen type, resolution?
Simon
On 20/10/2004, at 5:59 PM, Simon Dorfman wrote:
I'm currently using Monaco 13pt with anti-aliasing turned on. I'm working on a CRT 17" at 1152x864. I've tried ProFont and numerous others. ProFont looks good at 9pt. But that's too small for me. I'm still searching for coding font nirvana. A largeish (14pt), crisp, non-anti-aliased, font is what I'm looking for.
What's your font story? What font, size, non-/anti-alias, screen type, resolution?
On a 17" LCD @ 1280x1024, I'm currently using: Annandale Mono 11pt AA turned on
But that's only in TM -- when in BBEdit, I was using Monaco at 9pt with no AA...
I think my point is that in a few days I can get used to anything, but evidently I like my fonts a lot smaller than you do.
Annandale Mono looks good at 14pt with AA off, and good at 16pt with AA off too -- give it a try?
Justin
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 02:59:29 -0500, Simon Dorfman wrote:
What's your font story? What font, size, non-/anti-alias, screen type, resolution?
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, roman, 12pt, anti-aliased. Lovely.
Cheers, Andrew.
According to Justin French:
Personally, Pragmata doesn't entice me or offer anything new, so I'm not considering buying it at all.
Same here. I'm pretty happy with Vera Mono, a free font donated by Bitstream. It can be found on any GNOME mirror.
And don't forget the proggy fonts: http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download
bongoman
On 20/10/2004, at 10:02 PM, Ollivier Robert wrote:
According to Justin French:
Personally, Pragmata doesn't entice me or offer anything new, so I'm not considering buying it at all.
Same here. I'm pretty happy with Vera Mono, a free font donated by Bitstream. It can be found on any GNOME mirror.
Damn, that Vera Mono is one damn sexy font... currently experimenting with it at 11-12pt with AA on.
Justin
According to Justin French:
Damn, that Vera Mono is one damn sexy font... currently experimenting with it at 11-12pt with AA on.
I'm using it for all my iTerm/Terminal sessions at 12pt/AA. I also use it on my FreeBSD machines with xterm.
I must agree, Bitstream Vera Mono - Roman - 11pt AA makes an amazing font for textmate.
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:41:54 +0200, Ollivier Robert roberto+textmate@keltia.freenix.fr wrote:
According to Justin French:
Damn, that Vera Mono is one damn sexy font... currently experimenting with it at 11-12pt with AA on.
I'm using it for all my iTerm/Terminal sessions at 12pt/AA. I also use it on my FreeBSD machines with xterm.
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