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Just tried in my editor. At a size small enough to fit as many lines of text on screen as I can with Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, PTMono letters look like barely l

Just tried in my editor. At a size small enough to fit as many lines of text on screen as I can with Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, PTMono letters look like barely legible squiggles. Still yet to find a font that competes with Menlo/Vera Sans Mono for coding on a 900px-tall laptop screen. If anyone knows of such a thing, please let me know.

m_for_monkey 14y ago
My favorite is the Envy Code R: http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-coding-font-released http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-cod... I'm using it with full hinting enabled on Ubuntu/Xubuntu and it looks just as nice as the Windows screenshots on the homepage.
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- bluekeybox 14y ago
  Thanks. I tried it out, and here's the thing about Envy: it's a horizontally condensed typeface, which is good if your lines of code are very long (great if you're a Java programmer and have to deal with names like myAbstractFactoryClassMethodVerisonFive), but rather terrible if you're someone like me who keeps his lines no longer than 80 characters and has a habit of splitting his code windows into two or three vertical panels. The idea is to fit as many lines of text vertically, not to condense long lines horizontally. Human vision has some sort of legibility tradeoff where you can have letters that are either horizontally condensed but tall or vertically condensed but short. I am looking for something of the second kind for my main coding font.
  - christiangenco 14y ago
    Try dotsies: http://dotsies.org/ http://dotsies.org/
    - bluekeybox 14y ago
      Lol.
- adambyrtek 14y ago
  Do you know whether the author plans to release it under an open license? A few years ago he promised to do that after the 1.0 release, but it seems unlikely at this point.
jonathanyc 14y ago
ProFont works well for me. http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/ http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/
tomc1985 14y ago
I really like Anonymous Pro, 11pt font, 0.9 linespacing on my 1440x900 mac. Looks good with light AA http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymouspro.html http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymouspro.html edit: it sort of has serifs. kind of. well more than most sans fonts
- bluekeybox 14y ago
  I like this one, thanks. It appears to be a lighter-looking (at least with my font smoothing settings) version of Courier (which is good because regular Courier is legible but quite heavy at small sizes). The "serifs" are actually slabs, just like in Courier.
  - tomc1985 14y ago
    That's what they're called! Yeah, Courier is way too thick for my tastes.
jdpage 14y ago
I'm a fan of Monte Carlo (http://www.bok.net/MonteCarlo/ http://www.bok.net/MonteCarlo/). ProFont is also really nice, but doesn't have a proper bold version.
antihero 14y ago
Have a gander at Terminus 9pt. It's the one pixel font I can actually bear to look at.
gus_massa 14y ago
Try Proggy Tiny (Slashed Zero): http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download

m_for_monkey 14y ago

My favorite is the Envy Code R: http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-coding-font-released http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-cod... I'm using it with full hinting enabled on Ubuntu/Xubuntu and it looks just as nice as the Windows screenshots on the homepage.

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bluekeybox 14y ago
Thanks. I tried it out, and here's the thing about Envy: it's a horizontally condensed typeface, which is good if your lines of code are very long (great if you're a Java programmer and have to deal with names like myAbstractFactoryClassMethodVerisonFive), but rather terrible if you're someone like me who keeps his lines no longer than 80 characters and has a habit of splitting his code windows into two or three vertical panels. The idea is to fit as many lines of text vertically, not to condense long lines horizontally. Human vision has some sort of legibility tradeoff where you can have letters that are either horizontally condensed but tall or vertically condensed but short. I am looking for something of the second kind for my main coding font.
- christiangenco 14y ago
  Try dotsies: http://dotsies.org/ http://dotsies.org/
  - bluekeybox 14y ago
    Lol.
adambyrtek 14y ago
Do you know whether the author plans to release it under an open license? A few years ago he promised to do that after the 1.0 release, but it seems unlikely at this point.

jonathanyc 14y ago

ProFont works well for me. http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/ http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/

tomc1985 14y ago

I really like Anonymous Pro, 11pt font, 0.9 linespacing on my 1440x900 mac. Looks good with light AA http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymouspro.html http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymouspro.html edit: it sort of has serifs. kind of. well more than most sans fonts

bluekeybox 14y ago
I like this one, thanks. It appears to be a lighter-looking (at least with my font smoothing settings) version of Courier (which is good because regular Courier is legible but quite heavy at small sizes). The "serifs" are actually slabs, just like in Courier.
- tomc1985 14y ago
  That's what they're called! Yeah, Courier is way too thick for my tastes.

jdpage 14y ago

I'm a fan of Monte Carlo (http://www.bok.net/MonteCarlo/ http://www.bok.net/MonteCarlo/). ProFont is also really nice, but doesn't have a proper bold version.

antihero 14y ago

Have a gander at Terminus 9pt. It's the one pixel font I can actually bear to look at.

gus_massa 14y ago

Try Proggy Tiny (Slashed Zero): http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download