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- Roberto Bonini 
[14hr 59min ago]
no IDEs for me, just vim really more than enough :)
- directeur [11hr 27min ago]
What is this vim you speak of??? :)
- Roberto Bonini [11hr 27min ago]
Roberto: http://www.vim.org/ duh! :)
- directeur [11hr 20min ago]
Um, no.
- Roberto Bonini [11hr 18min ago]
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Tina Suggested Sans Serif
- Roberto Bonini [15hr 37min ago]
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Well?
- Roberto Bonini [15hr 22min ago]
mikepk suggested Vera: http://www.gnome.org/font...
- Roberto Bonini [15hr 20min ago]
i also have used proggy clean - the one with the slashed zero (but not the thicker brackets, thats the editor's job not the font's) http://www.proggyfonts.co...
- Joelle Nebbe [15hr 6min ago]
Thanks, taking alook.
- Roberto Bonini [15hr 2min ago]
I've been using Terminal, which is not very exciting, I know.
- Morton Fox [14hr 59min ago]
Morton, Um, no. (I just tried it). :)
- Roberto Bonini [14hr 56min ago]
you make a choice? Another fixed width I use sometimes is Monaco, but that's only when I need a break from Vera Sans. On a lark did a search, I figured there must have been someone obsessed with this :) http://www.kuro5hin.org/s...
- mikepk [14hr 19min ago]
very good point (indirectly) by mike: you need to rotate now and then, it helps the eyes
- Joelle Nebbe [14hr 17min ago]
Well I'm with the Black version of Hypatia Sans (clearer to read, almost mono spaced) at the moment. I'm going to try all the ones suggested. Want me to post a compasiron?
- Roberto Bonini [14hr 16min ago]
I'm reading that list of yours Mike, thanks.
- Roberto Bonini [14hr 16min ago]
I tend toward some version of proggy usually (tiny over clean, tho, if I -had- to pick), but I change about once a month or two to something else. Right now I'm using Android's Droid Sans Mono.
- abacab [14hr 11min ago]
Personally, my favorite is Dina (tiny & clean) If you like Proggy, you'll love Dina. http://www.donationcoder....
- April Russo [14hr 2min ago]
looking at it now (its been suggested a couple of times to me already). Thanks April.
- Roberto Bonini [13hr 59min ago]
abacab, I thought about droid, I forget why I decided against it now. Maybe I'll toy with it again.
- mikepk [13hr 56min ago]
and if you do use a free font and appreciate it, make a small donation to the font creator
- Joelle Nebbe [13hr 45min ago]
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What do you think?
- Roberto Bonini [16hr 6min ago]
Thanks for confirming my suspicion. Although it seems to rank up with Comic Sans for sheer awfulness. ;)
- Tyson Key [16hr 4min ago]
I find the bottom font to be too thin to easily read in the current screenshot.
- Stupid Blogger (aka Tina) [16hr ago]
i have *paid* for good fixed width fonts, it can be that important. Although recently I think I used Dina
- Joelle Nebbe [15hr 59min ago]
I prefer the top one: it has strokes which are more broad and is slightly less decorative than the one below. Having written that, however, I would never write code with anything other than a monospace font. I used to use Dina (http://www.donationcoder....) a lot but over the past year or so have been happy with Consolas.
- Akiva Moskovitz [15hr 57min ago]
I prefer the top, personally. I like slightly heavier fonts in a text editor.
- Jason Huebel [15hr 56min ago]
first is more readable IMHO
- Mario [15hr 55min ago]
I prefer the top, having looked closely.
- Tyson Key [15hr 55min ago]
Calibri is at the top (the one that ships with MS office).
- Roberto Bonini [15hr 54min ago]
Comparison with Courier New: http://friendfeed.com/e/6...
- Roberto Bonini [15hr 49min ago]
Consolas is a personal favorite.
- Jared Smith [15hr 46min ago]
Jared: Comparison with consolas here: http://friendfeed.com/e/e...
- Roberto Bonini [15hr 40min ago]
12 pt Consolas Bold ftw!
- Yuvi (has IRL friends!) [14hr 7min ago]
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Now what do you think?
- Roberto Bonini [15hr 50min ago]
Monospace is still the best way to go, if you ask me. But Calibri is still the better of the two variable-width fonts presented here.
- Akiva Moskovitz [15hr 48min ago]
Yep. Quite a comparison. Anyone know of monospaced fonts that DONT bear a resembalance to Courier New?? Geting Tired of Courier New
- Roberto Bonini [15hr 43min ago]
There's an MS Mono that is sans serif
- Stupid Blogger (aka Tina) [15hr 41min ago]
Comparison with Ms Sans Serif for tina; http://friendfeed.com/e/f...
- Roberto Bonini [15hr 36min ago]
Vera Sans mono... It's a free monospace font that's used in gnome. My current programming fav. http://www.gnome.org/font...
- mikepk [15hr 36min ago]
Trying Vera Sans
- Roberto Bonini [15hr 33min ago]
I've always preferred monospaced fonts for code, but I think Calibri is the nicer of the other two
- Imabug [15hr 31min ago]
I always use monospaced fonts for code (mainly Consolas).
- Jordan Hofker [15hr 29min ago]
vera sans also has other important programming bits. Like differentiated zero (with a dot).
- mikepk [15hr 29min ago]
Vera does actually look quite good.
- Roberto Bonini [15hr 24min ago]
Comparison here: http://friendfeed.com/e/2...
- Roberto Bonini [15hr 22min ago]
And now?
- Roberto Bonini [15hr 41min ago]
Consolas gets the medal.
- Akiva Moskovitz [15hr 34min ago]
My points that the Mono fonts above all have much the same typeface (with subtle variations). A mono that does not look like a mono( read: like the ones above) would be nice.
- Roberto Bonini [15hr 31min ago]
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Yuvi answered: http://msdn.microsoft.com...
- Roberto Bonini [16hr 40min ago]
Heh, what is that fugly font? I've seen it in the Microsoft Office Binary Formats specifications more times than I can count.
- Tyson Key [16hr 29min ago]
Hypatia Sans Pro. Here: http://tinyurl.com/34wpnl... .Came with registering CS3. Think Google will be able to find a Torrent for it :)
- Roberto Bonini [16hr 27min ago]
Having looked at the Adobe Reader properties for some of the PDFs, I have a feeling that they might be using Calibri, although the fonts appear to be substituted for system ones/rerendered on the Windows machine I'm at right now. Looks really awful in KPDF and Adobe Reader on my Linux machines at home, though.
- Tyson Key [16hr 14min ago]
I've no idea. Must try it side-by-side with Calibri. I've got Cleartype enabled on Vista.
- Roberto Bonini [16hr 12min ago]
Unless they've recently changed the fonts in the specification PDFs as of late, although it's been a while since I last looked at one, for what it's worth.
- Tyson Key [16hr 11min ago]
Heres a side-by side; http://friendfeed.com/e/3...
- Roberto Bonini [16hr 5min ago]
http://i.friendfeed.com/8... has a screenshot of what I see here. Looking at the comparison now.
- Tyson Key [16hr 5min ago]
Thanks for the comparison, I commented on the other object/post.
- Tyson Key [16hr 2min ago]
Pleasure. Still trying out hypatia. But think i'll carry on looking for somthing more, um practical.
- Roberto Bonini [16hr 1min ago]
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