Mensch -- A coding font
robey.lag.net
robey.lag.net
Inconsolata is also what I use exclusively. I make a point to install it on any new box that I'm going to be using regularly.
If you feel the same, check out Inconsolata-dz:
http://nodnod.net/2009/feb/12/adding-straight-single-and-dou...
Screenshots:
Similarly, Monaco doesn't look half as good on Windows :) Text rendering differs on OS X and Windows.
Why would changing the font affect the brightness of the colors in the terminal?
I find Andale Mono to be the perfect blend of legibility, distinctive character forms, and lightness, for black letters on white background. With its shorter and rounded letterforms providing a sense of white space between lines, I suspect this font is reminding me of highly legible daisy wheel printouts. This is my font of choice for both coding and plain-text email. It's not as widely known, but people who use it become somewhat fanatical.
In Terminal I use amber on black, and find Monaco 10pt. better because of the line height and old school terminal feel. I suspect this font reminds me of the plotter-style vector fonts pre-dating MS-DOS. Like Consolas, Monaco has a slash through the zero, which I much prefer.
Just for fun, try http://sensi.org/~svo/glasstty/ in 20 pt (15 pt in Windows) terminal window. It's a DEC VT220 terminal glyph font complete with raster lines.
And, unrelated, if you are thinking the serif font for the prose on that page looked like some ghastly font from the early days of printing. It is!
Legitima is the digital revival of a typeface used in Cicceide Legitima, a book written by Francesco Lazzarelli and printed in Venice, ca. 1694.
To be fair, Legitima is designed to work in smaller sizes and going smaller than the 19pt on the page makes it look much better.
Maybe it's just me. To each his own I guess!
Here's a nice oddball coding font for you: http://www.dafont.com/monofur.font
http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-cod...
-> no longer looks like an arrow.
I think the original artist drew the L weirdly to make it extremely clear that it’s not a one, but if you draw a gothic one, the difference is obvious even with a simpler L.
Even if you're not on a Mac it shouldn't be difficult to find one or two.
On my iMac I find that Menlo has a very subtle fuzziness to its characters. Monaco (10pt) remains my setting for now. Despite being not very pretty, it is very crisp and the letters (aside from l and 1) are very distinct and legible.
Sitting next to capital letters or numbers it would probably look ok, but that size dwarfs the lower-case letters.
http://vnoel.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/coda-coding-font-panic...
Also, angle brackets look too similar to parentheses -- <> (). Here's some source code that would look terrible in this font:
(if (< item x)
(<< lessx item)
(<< gex item)))The angle brackets on this png are fine, unlike on the examples on the original page.
I've just downloaded Mensch, and on my box too the angle brackets are fine, with an angle between the lines of about 55 degrees, as opposed to about 85 degrees on the original page; so it would appear the downloadable font is different from that described no the page.
Either way, really like the widened GT and LT chars for coding, thanks!
You sir, are a mensch.
In fact DejaVu includes pretty much all of unicode.
Anonymous Pro includes embedded bitmaps for specific sizes.
Good lord, we programmers are spoiled.
I've tried most other fonts for a while and DejaVu Sans Mono for the longest time because it supports so many of the unicode characters, but I really don't need them when programming (or doing most other things on the computer, but then I come from a region where the default ASCII set is almost good enough).