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No text looks better or reads more easily to me while coding than a monospaced bitmap font at about 10pt and 100ish DPI. (And yes, I've read properly antialiase
by p1necone 6y ago
No text looks better or reads more easily to me while coding than a monospaced bitmap font at about 10pt and 100ish DPI. (And yes, I've read properly antialiased text on a high DPI screen).
Of course this is probably a product of nostalgia and familiarity as much as it is actual general readability.
- 0xdeadb00f 6y agoI have no nostalgia associated with pixelated or bitmap fonts, but I agree. So it might not entirely be your nostalgia leading you to the preference :p After using bitmap fonts for a while I can't help but notice how imperfect antialiasing, and other ways of smoothing fonts are. To the point where it distracts me. For example, when using Windows Terminal; "Huh? Is that font meant to look like that? Better check all my windows font settings and use that pointless wizard for the 5th time". I cannot use a terminal font on *nix that isn't a bitmap font. I hate anything else. That being said I haven't tried any of the tricks in the article, maybe those will sort out my problems with my non-bitmap font rendering.