[TxMt] Re: Coda, Panic Sans Font

[Mark Eli Kalderon]

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.