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Best programming font?

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-29 4:16

This may seem trivial, but the font you're staring at for a good 8 hours of the day does make a difference in the long run. What's the best monospace font for programming?

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-29 4:33

I like my own modification of Lucida Console (removed annoying "decoration" in i, l, etc., aligned +-* etc., made * look like a goddamn asterisk not that ugly crap introduced in modern fonts, added more Unicode characters, etc., can't release it sorry :( ).

I also like terminal-like serif fonts, the ones that look straight off your Video BIOS.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-29 5:37

Wingdings!

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-29 6:27

>>3
Fail for dirty hack for the Unicode impaired

Use proper Unicode characters, not Wingdings.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-29 7:25

Courier New / Regular / Size 9

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-29 7:34

>>5
Courier New renders too thinly onto the screen. Not enough contrast

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-29 7:54

>>5
Worst font ever

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-29 8:08

>>6
Fixedsys

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-29 8:09

>>7
Comic Sans MS

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-29 9:37

LOL YHBT

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-29 10:56

Old English ftw!

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-29 12:21

Verdana is the only font anyone should ever need.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-29 12:42

>>9
Comic Sans MS is actually good for what it's for (scanlations and stupid emails retarded people forward), but Courier fonts are not even good for what they are for.

>>12
Agree for proportional spacing fonts, disagree for fixed spacing fonts. Give me a fixed spacing Verdana and I'll be alright.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-29 13:58

>>13
No, Comic Sans MS looks like crap. Use Wild Words or something good.

There are two main ways of telling if a scanlation is crap:
1. It uses Comic Sans MS.
2. It uses Chinese scans.

Identifiying the second can be tricky, but generally Chinese scan means:
1. Translated SFX (into Chinese, but not further)
2. Very low quality (Chinese are behind many years).
3. Translator that only knows Chinese, possibly some Japanese.
4. Badly named archive, images not named correctly, etc.

Well, Chinese scans are better than Indonesian or French at least.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-29 14:58

Doesn't matter, just pick one *you* like.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-29 15:03

>>15
People are too stupid to tell if they like a font or not [1].

[1] http://gotlurk.net/ (valid choices are Helvetica, Verdana and possibly Tahoma)

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-29 16:35

>>8
Hi, you won the thread. What are you going to do now?

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-29 18:26 (sage)

>>17
Make some breakfast.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-29 19:07

>>8
Shitty old raster font. No Unicode support = useless. Plus tiny and not ugly, but not nice either.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-29 23:55

>>19
why fuck are you programming with unicode-only characters? practically every programming language is written using latin-1.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-30 1:37

>>19
I masturbate to raster

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-30 1:49

>>20
Hilarity: in Perl6 they want to use more than that.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-30 2:39

>>20
Because I don't use my text editor for programming only.

>>21
I masturbate to antialiasing.

>>22
And they should support it (it's already supported in other languages), even though it's not always a good practice. But you'll eventually have to edit your language definitions.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-30 4:42 (sage)

>>23
I masturbate to ... MS WINDOWS CLEARTYPE ... OH GOD I CAME SO MUCH!!!

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-30 9:55

>>20
I'd like to see you output east asian text with latin-1

>>4
Who cares about the unicode hacks, it's all about the fruity symbols!

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-30 15:13

I like SimSun the best for programming. All the latin characters are monospace and really quite attractive.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-30 15:24

Fixedsys

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-30 16:29

proggy square

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-31 2:12

LOLOLOL

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-31 3:02

>>24
I don't use ClearType, I edit fonts to get antialiased at all sizes and make them a bit bolder, so that they get antialiased at any size and look better.

>>26
BTW, what's the difference between SimSun and NSimSun?

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-31 4:13

>>15
The idea was that maybe there are recommendations one doesn't know about yet. I can't pick a font that I don't know to exist.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-31 4:47

Just use Verdana here.  Monospace isn't worth much with modern languages.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-31 4:56

>>32
NO U

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-31 5:10

>>32 is a Java "programmer"

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-31 8:34

>>34
I believe they're called "professional certified consultants".

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-31 12:41

>>35
I believe they're called "braindead".

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-01 11:54

Monaco

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-04 6:28

Tempus Sans ttttttttttttttttttttttttt

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-05 11:55

DejaVu Sans Mono

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-05 12:25

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-05 23:22

In the process of looking through all your recommendations, I found a font called Anonymous which is pretty good. Perfect font for 4chan users isn't it?

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-06 4:26

No, fixedsys is better.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-06 4:46

Fixedsys is for dinosaurs
Oh wait, dinosaurs already had a draft of Unicode 1.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-07 10:53

I use Lucida Grande Regular size 11. :D

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-07 13:51

>>39
seconded

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-11 16:12

Bitstream Vera Sans Mono is the best programming font.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-12 18:56

It's Terminus.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-13 22:11

I like mona

Name: Anonymous 2009-01-14 4:57

Verdana of course

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