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This is a question directed towards all of you, programming peeps!
Ever since the beginning of my college CS Major till now (my junior year) I've been using the font "Courier New" until not long ago where I realized it's a font that brings hell on my eyes.
What is your preferred font to use while you program? I'm trying to find one that won't confuse me to insanity when trying to read code thousands of lines long!
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I don't know really about fonts in programs but for web pages Verdana is good.
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TIMES NEW ROMAN FONT 12
NAHHH BRAHH
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Kentor
United States5784 Posts
On March 28 2009 05:11 Zoler wrote: I don't know really about fonts in programs but for web pages Verdana is good. lol Verdana. He's talking about monospaced fonts, as in fonts where every character has the same width, as in the ones you use to code.
Try Consolas. It comes standard with Vista and you can download it easily. I think that one is a pretty popular replacement for Courier New.
Oh, and only use Consolas if you have anti-alias on since it's designed for that. Else it's not that good.
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On March 28 2009 05:11 Zoler wrote: I don't know really about fonts in programs but for web pages Verdana is good.
Verdana is great.(but poster above is right, not too great for coding). Another good one IMO is Lucida Console.
edit: Also looking through my fonts, Inconsolata is a good monospace font.
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Segoe UI, Candara, Calibri
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Kentor
United States5784 Posts
On March 28 2009 05:25 IzzyCraft wrote: Segoe UI, Candara, Calibri those aren't monospaced -______________________________-
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I find that size/boldness, the syntax highlighting colour scheme and lightling of the room/around the screen has a much larger impact than the font itself.
I use 'crisp' ie not too bold, relatively large settings and colour schemes with a light, almost white background that have enough contrast on all the highlighting in a well lit room. For some people dark backgrounds work better though.
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On March 28 2009 05:30 Kentor wrote:those aren't monospaced -______________________________- Yeah but they show up better on the screen.
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Fine monospace Inconsolata
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Kentor
United States5784 Posts
On March 28 2009 05:43 IzzyCraft wrote:Show nested quote +On March 28 2009 05:30 Kentor wrote:On March 28 2009 05:25 IzzyCraft wrote: Segoe UI, Candara, Calibri those aren't monospaced -______________________________- Yeah but they show up better on the screen. do you even code? if you code in verdana or calibri then LOL
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I can't see text as well in monospace it just looks like lines to me fucks up my ability to read.
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On March 28 2009 05:47 Kentor wrote:Show nested quote +On March 28 2009 05:43 IzzyCraft wrote:On March 28 2009 05:30 Kentor wrote:On March 28 2009 05:25 IzzyCraft wrote: Segoe UI, Candara, Calibri those aren't monospaced -______________________________- Yeah but they show up better on the screen. do you even code? if you code in verdana or calibri then LOL
LOL, yeah i can't imagine how you could maintain sanity while doing that regardless
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United States47024 Posts
Whatever you call the default in the Emacs 23 snapshot, seeing as 90% of stuff I write is in that (the other 10% being Times New Roman in OpenOffice, cuz my English and History professors prefer that).
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Courier size 10. (Yeah I'm boring)
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Consolas. Best monospace font I've ever seen. Included in Vista. Requires Vista/7 with ClearType enabled though, otherwise it looks like crap.
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come to think of it i never changed the defaults apparently it's terminal and/or monospace##? here's the SS, the other one's whatever the default in netbeans is
random plug: i suggest you give skipall a chance for an imagehost if you haven't heard about it yet, it's great xD
i'll give consolas a try now
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