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This inspired me to generate some automatic font comparisons using Mathematica: http://cronus.ws/~mta/fonts/ http://cronus.ws/~mta/fonts/ Any feedback is appre

• DrJokepu 17y ago
  Very nice, it would be interesting if you could do a Microsoft Sans Serif - Helvetica comparison as well as those two fonts are almost identical, with only very very subtle differences.
• lamnk 17y ago
  Why do you compare Consolas with others ? It's a monospaced typeface, it should be compared with Courier New/Monaco/Andale Mono etc ... Or Courier vs Courier New ? Compare the popular typefaces from different platforms (Win/Mac/Lin) would also be very interesting
• sp332 17y ago
  How about Time New Roman vs. Georgia? It's always puzzled me that they look much different on screen, but fairly similar when printed.
  • Adrock 17y ago
    That's a good, subtle one: http://cronus.ws/~mta/fonts/GeorgiaTimesNewRoman.html http://cronus.ws/~mta/fonts/GeorgiaTimesNewRoman.html
    • sp332 17y ago
      OK, so I guess the slight differences are exaggerated by the font hinting. But the printer, being much higher resolution, can show the similar font shapes more clearly. Cool.
• spicyj 17y ago
  I'd be curious to see how you did this. Would you be willing to release the source code?
  • Adrock 17y ago
    No problem: http://cronus.ws/~mta/fonts/FontCompareSource.nb http://cronus.ws/~mta/fonts/FontCompareSource.nb And for those without Mathematica: http://cronus.ws/~mta/fonts/FontCompareSource.pdf http://cronus.ws/~mta/fonts/FontCompareSource.pdf