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Posted: 28 Apr 2011, 11:33
by Findecanor
Windows' consolas has grown on me after I have used it more.
On keys, I think that smaller letters look better.
Posted: 30 Apr 2011, 15:58
by ripster
Somebody shoot Mozilla.
Firefox 4 W and V look like it's rendered by a kindergartner.
Posted: 30 Apr 2011, 18:05
by webwit
It doesn't use its own rendering but Windows rendering (which I presume you run), and that is different on other people's computers because you can adjust it to your liking (Control Panel -> Fonts -> Adjust ClearType). I heard people complain about too bold fonts, too thin fonts, etc., while you can adjust it yourself.
Posted: 02 May 2011, 18:40
by ripster
Well, it's better with ClearType tuning but something is definitely up with Firefox 4 and fonts.
Posted: 10 Jul 2012, 18:41
by typhson
Font on the Choc Mini must be Arial?
For me it is awful in written text, but I think in single capital Letters on Keycaps it does look verry clean.
I like it, especially in these gold brown on dark brown Caps..
Posted: 10 Jul 2012, 19:22
by rainb1ood
Posted: 10 Jul 2012, 20:48
by itlnstln
FireFox and IE9 use DirectWrite, not ClearType. DirectWrite is an abortion. In order to have IE9 and FF render "correctly," hardware acceleration needs to be turned off.
That's why I use Chrome. For added effect, I also use Mactype (a GL++ -like renderer):
http://code.google.com/p/mactype/
BTW, my favorite font is Helvetica. Mactype renders Helvetica (and many other fonts) properly in Windows unlike ClearType.
Posted: 10 Jul 2012, 21:16
by harrison
Google took a LOT of flak from the font community regarding Roboto. I like the look of it as well, but the opinions about it out there are pretty aggressive.
Posted: 11 Jul 2012, 23:34
by RC-1140
Sans-Serif:
DejaVu Sans
Serif:
Computer Modern / Latin Modern
Monospace:
Inconsolata-g
Posted: 12 Jul 2012, 06:17
by sth
sans: DIN Pro, Alte Haas Grotesk
serif/slabserif: Vitesse (slab), Sentinel (Hoefler is great!)
mono: Monaco 10 (mac default, got used to it and now I sorta like it), Liberation Sans Mono
Posted: 12 Jul 2012, 07:14
by ripster
typhson wrote:Font on the Choc Mini must be Arial?
For me it is awful in written text, but I think in single capital Letters on Keycaps it does look verry clean.
I like it, especially in these gold brown on dark brown Caps..
Yep Arial, it's all here:
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?2817 ... nt-Lesson/
Posted: 12 Jul 2012, 07:38
by TexasFlood
Really? Still posting geekhack links?
Posted: 12 Jul 2012, 07:46
by ripster
mkawa says GH will be up soon.
Don't you think it is Arial?
Posted: 12 Jul 2012, 07:51
by TexasFlood
What, favorite? For me probably arial, or helvetica, for work stuff anyway.
Posted: 30 Sep 2012, 08:17
by ferociousfingerings
In accordance with this font-thread's obligatory 'comic sans' references, i shall share
this comic-sans-related link.
Posted: 30 Sep 2012, 09:17
by dirge
Courier
vertically aligned for work, I do like some of the ones linked in here. May have to play around.
Posted: 01 Oct 2012, 00:21
by Biernot
Tahoma/8... without any antialiasing - die, blurry fonts, die. (
http://www.sharpfonts.co.cc/ for Nobel Prize.
)
(Courier New is OK, too.)
Posted: 01 Oct 2012, 22:03
by RC-1140
In the last time I slowly started to like Terminus, if I'm forced to work without a graphical environment. Otherwise I still prefer antialiased fonts.
I don't really like the Courier family, as I don't like looking on serifs. In print I prefer serifs though. But even then I don't like Courier…
Edit: D'oh! I like looking on serifs. I meant to say that I dislike them on LCDs.
Posted: 02 Oct 2012, 00:25
by Jim66
Courier New for me.
Posted: 02 Oct 2012, 10:02
by HzFaq
Jim66 wrote:Courier New for me.
This, I'm a data admin and looking at anything in a font other then Courier New just automatically looks wrong.
Posted: 02 Oct 2012, 14:18
by bhtooefr
Consolas and DejaVu Sans Mono/Menlo (Menlo being a fork of DVSM) are my favorite fixed-width typefaces.
Segoe UI is a nice UI typeface... although it's actually pretty meh on ClearType, even though it was DESIGNED for ClearType. Looks much better on an engine that goes for sub-pixel precision, like RISC OS or OS X's renderers, than on an exact pixel boundary renderer such as ClearType.
Posted: 29 Nov 2012, 10:01
by ne0phyte
To revive this thread..
My two favorite monospace fonts for programming are
Envy Code R VS:
and the
Proggy programming fonts:
Posted: 29 Nov 2012, 13:33
by bhtooefr
The problem with Envy Code R VS is the l/1 problem. Hard to tell at a quick glance, which is which.
(Still, otherwise a nice looking typeface.)
Posted: 29 Nov 2012, 14:24
by ne0phyte
I agree, but I never really had a problem with that. I usually don't have numbers and characters mixed (as variable, method or class name etc) so for me it doesn't matter.
Posted: 29 Nov 2012, 18:45
by Daniel
I like the X11 core fonts (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_%28typeface%29), in 6x13:
-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1
Posted: 29 Jan 2013, 21:42
by typhson
Since today i was using courier new in my sourcecode editor.
I tried now the severels monospaced fonts mentioned here, and a few others, but after all I stucked on SourceCodePro:
- SourceCodeSplash.png (38.32 KiB) Viewed 5835 times
It's not bitmaped, but verry smooth to read imo. I quote a developer of adobe, who tells about problems concerning
monospaced fonts (which are the same I had, and which SourceCodePro should't have that much)
To my eye, many existing monospaced font suffer from one of three problems. The first problem that I often notice is that, many monospaced fonts force lowercase letters with a very large x-height into a single width, resulting in overly condensed letter forms which result in words and text with a monotonous rhythm, which quickly becomes tedious for human eyes to process. The second problem is somewhat the opposite of the first: many monospaced fonts have lowercase letters that leave too much space in between letters, causing words and strings to not hold together. Lastly, there is a category of monospaced fonts whose details I find to be too fussy to really work well in coding applications where a programmer doesn’t want to be distracted by such things.
What else? Normal fonts: SourceSansPro is also smart, I think, but nothing special. However, I read today the first time about Roboto explicitly, I saw it here and there, and it was mentioned early in this thread, but i didn't notice it really
I like it too :thumbs
Posted: 04 Feb 2013, 15:19
by Scheider
Posted: 08 Sep 2013, 03:40
by bhtooefr
Bumping to note that I find I'm liking TI Uni a lot as a monospace font.
Bundled with the tools for TI calculators. Looks better on OS X than Windows, but looks decent on Windows too.
Posted: 08 Sep 2013, 04:59
by mr_a500
Bah! I make my own fonts. I made fonts for Amiga, Mac OSX and even the fonts on my Sansa Clip+.
Yes, I'm a bit of a perfectionist freak.
