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Menlo is nice. I use it as the default in Xcode, Terminal, and Safari under 10.6. It looks to have been tweaked from Bitstream Vera Sans for Quartz's anti-alias
by kevbin 17y ago
Menlo is nice. I use it as the default in Xcode, Terminal, and Safari under 10.6. It looks to have been tweaked from Bitstream Vera Sans for Quartz's anti-aliasing—like Consolas was tweaked from TheSansMono for Cleartype. The letter forms in TheSansMono are the most beautiful—if you're printing a program listing or samples for a book buy and use TheSansMono—Consolas is the sharpest, easiest to read on Windows LCDs, but looks funny on Macs; Menlo is clearer and easier to read on Macs than Consolas. If you want to use the same font set on Mac, Windows, Linux, et al, the Liberation fonts are the best plan; Liberation Mono is pretty, consistent, and doesn't morph too much between renderers.
- dflock 17y agoThe Droid family from Ascender, which Google commissioned for Android is uniformly excellent, renders well everywhere I've seen it and is Apache Licensed. I'm currently using 'Droid Sans' as a system UI font (on Linux) and 'Droid Sans Mono' for coding, terminals, etc... In fact I've just aliased the linux 'sans', 'mono', etc... to the appropriate Droid face. More info here, including the link to the git repo if you want to check the fonts out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_fonts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_fonts these are in the Ubuntu repo's as 'ttf-droid' or you can do a straight download from here: http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/droid-font-family-courtesy-of-google-ascender http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/droid-font-family-courtes...
- kevbin 17y agoI think Droid and Liberation are siblings, from the same designer & foundry. Liberation has more variations (italic, bold italic) and more "flourishes" (like in the uppercase Q, lowercase a and what not).
- mikedouglas 17y agoCould you upload a screenshot of Xcode+Menlo?