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the fruits of your success will be in direct ratio to the honesty and sincerity of your own efforts in keeping your own records, doing your own thinking and, reaching your own conclusions.
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John C wrote: What do you suggest then
The Proggy-Type fonts are great. As long as you use them in precisely the size they are meant to. These are fixed-size fonts, and windows will do horrible things to them if it tries to stretch them.
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Every time I come across mention of monospaced fonts especially for programming, I give them a try. I keep coming back to Courier New. I really like the way Proggy Clean looks, but I don't use it because it doesn't scale well (if I need to enlarge for easier discussion about code with someone else.)
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No, not the poster, the font.
I've tried Hyperfont and Crystal, but Anonymous is the best.
Google it.
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It looks like it can't decide if it wants to be serif or sans-serif...
Despite everything, the person most likely to be fooling you next is yourself.
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Yeah, I was just looking at it (in 7 point) and I noticed that too. But that seems common; even Consolas and the Proggies have serifs on the i and j. The lowercase l as well, but that's a good thing -- distinct from vertical bar |
However, the l is still too similar to the 1.
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Proggy is too small and it comes only in a handful of sizes, so Consolas it is. Plus, it looks great with cleartype on LCD (my main machine), on CRT Courier New is the better choice.
The only flaw of Consolas is a lack of slashed zero (you gotta tell your O from 0).
Unfortunately, people who make fonts (typographists and graphic designers) don't do programming, they are in completely different domains of creativity, otherwise somebody would have made the right stuff by now.
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Variable width? "Don't care"??? You people call yourself programmers?
If it can't be easily chiseled into a block of granite, it's not worth coding in.
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For gentlemen who see;
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency!
-Emily Dickinson
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I always use "Terminal" myself. Easier for my aging eyes to read.
-CB 
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Been using it for some years, but I've settled with Proggy Clean Slashed Zero.
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I've been using Courier New up until today. I tried Consolas for a couple of hours both with and without ClearType enabled, and didn't like it at all. (I don't like ClearType, either. To me it isn't really all that "clear.")
Since Chris was nice enough to provide links in the poll, I've now switched to Proggy Clean SZ, myself.
Grim
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In apps which only allow TrueType, use Fixedsys Excelsior. When you scale you see pixelation... Mmmm.....
"There's a good and a bad side of a battery. We were very good at the negative." - James Hetfield
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The DOS box properties dialog just says "Raster fonts", I use 7x12.
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... very suitable for it.
"Cookies are delicious delicacies." - Mozilla Foundation
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... in a colour scheme with lots of pink.
This statement is false.
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Lends itself to limp wrists?
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Absolutely definitely no way should anyone ever write any code at all of any sort in any language using Courier New, or any serif'ed font.
If I ruled the world this would be my first Law, and second and third, just to make the point.
Serifs are for the printed page not screens with pixels. (<- genuine point!!!)
STOP USING COURIER NEW - NOW.
You think I'm just a crank but I'm right, and one day you'll see the light and agree.
Code written with serifs smells funny *and* is more buggy.
If I ever see code written in Courier New I re-write it in Bitstream just to make sure.
Adam
PS I've toned down my usual level or ire on this subject so I hopefully come across all reasonable and balanced. You should hear me when I really get going.
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adambl wrote: You think I'm just a crank
you got that part right, at least.
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You know of a sans serif typeface with easily distinguishable uppercase "I" and lowercase "L"? Oh, I see... Comic Sans MS.
P.S. Bear in mind that those bars at the top and bottom of I are serifs; Comic Sans and Tahoma aren't truly sans serif.
modified on Monday, June 30, 2008 2:13 PM
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I doubt the fact the code with serifs is more buggy. Come on, its just a bunch of letters. You get just as much bugs with consolas 
However I do agree that code is easier to read with a sans-serif font.
WM.
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Envy Code R is really a good font: thank god for this poll - it changed my life!!!
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. [Chineese Proverb]
Jonathan C Dickinson (C# Software Engineer)
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I tried it a while back when someone here mentioned it. I didn't like it.
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To the current 27% who voted "Don't care" I'd wager you would care if the default font was a poor choice e.g. Comic Sans.
Typography is a subtle craft that when done best you don't know about and don't have to care about. But when it is done poorly it can negatively impact on your productivity and state of mind.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
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