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* Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> [2006-10-29 17:20]: > >Whereas a coder like you is too hardcore for such concepts as > >"easy on the eye." That's for those who don't know what > >*really* matters. Real programmers thrive on ugliness. > > This is a real problem. > > It's hard enough to find a monospaced font that (a) makes it > easy to distinguish just all the symbols in USASCII, let alone > Unicode, and (b) is easy on the eye. I've found several, but > it's taken some searching, I'll be the first to agree. An inordinate amount of what passes for fonts out there is a pile of trash. > and I'm willing to bet that none of them have all of "˟ˣxⅹ" > distinct. I use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono as my workhorse monospace font and I'm not finding a whole lot to hate about it. Here f.ex. the characters you show are all clearly distinct. The whole Vera family has much to commend it (except for Vera Serif being kinda ugly), but then, it's made by freakin' *Bitstream*, so that's not surprising, merely the exception from the rule. > Fonts are software, and therefore hateful. Absolutely. At this point I'd much rather lay down a chunk of money for a good font than for software. Sincerely, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;There's stuff above here
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