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Visual Comparison of 18 Monospaced Fonts
donationcoder.com — This is a monospaced font comparison screen shot of 18 different fonts which are great for programming.
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- kenfagerdotcom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Already dugg to death? Grrrr...
- itistoday, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0damn, while Monaco is great at 12 point, I was wondering if there was anything better.
- tetfsu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0digg effect
- panique, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I like Andale Mono 11 myself.
- databasecowboy, on 11/12/2007, -1/+19The server is dugg, here's the text version of the comparison.
I have to say I like the third one:
The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog. - tazamore, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Comic Sans is the only perfect typeface. All others are cheap imitators.
- steven509, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.donationcoder.com.nyud.net:8080/Forums/bb/index.php?topic=2499.0
- SilentNoOne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1here is the pic of all the fonts, page is loading very slowly
http://silent1.shackspace.com/Monotype%20Fonts%20Comparison%20-%20Size%209%20Regular,%2096dpi,%20ClearType%20On.png - webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0They missed Consolas. ;)
- GeorgeB, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Damn that was a fast digg effect
http://www.onlyriddles.com - deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Andale Mono is my personal favorite
- master_of_fm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Courier New is my favorite, reminds me of typewriters. for you kiddies typewriters were the analog predecessor to word processing programs.
- pauly1980, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0why is this being dugg?? oye people.... choose one... move on
- SamuelLame, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Useful. Digg++
For the record, I like Dina. - DoubtfulSalmon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Guy takes lame screenshot. Guy puts lame screenshot on digg. Guy gets dugg all the way to the front page.
WTF is happening to digg? - GeneralAntilles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Is it me, or is Window's font rendering terrible?
- Software2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"WTF is happening to digg?"
It happened a looooong time ago - scblock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've tried most of these but ended up sticking with the old SGI screen font. I managed to convert a BDF version of the font to a windows .fon file (which is technically broken but works in Windows XP). A friend of mine converted it to a TTF that is also broken but works well on Mac OS X.
The fonts are broken because the good font tools cost money, so we had to use bad tools. - edmicman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Bitstream Vera Sans Mono for the win!
- kflasch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Terminus (http://www.is-vn.bg/hamster/jimmy-en.html) is my favorite programming font. It is excellent.
Other good monospace font resources:
http://jeff.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/mono.html
http://keithdevens.com/wiki/ProgrammerFonts - redrebel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I use lime from artwiz..just luv it
http://artwizaleczapka.sourceforge.net/
http://artwizaleczapka.sourceforge.net/images/shots/artwiz-aleczapka.jpg - bigteebo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Which font is the classic CGA 640x200 font?
- jroad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Here's a mirror of the ClearType version:
http://www.dvrtools.com/temp/ - name, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They forgot the terminus font:
http://www.is-vn.bg/hamster/jimmy-en.html
"Terminus Font is designed for long (8 and more hours per day) work with computers." - oepapel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Is it me, or is Window's font rendering terrible?"
Look farther down and you can see ClearType enabled screenshots. The author turned off antialiasing on the first set (I have no idea why). I guess to contrast better with the ClearType version - pauldonnelly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Man, these look *awful*! I knew that my fonts looked ***** when I turned off font smoothing in Linux (Gnome and KDE), but I thought that Windows was a little better. Evidently not. It looks like the most basic fonts are okay, but pretty much nothing else is. My feelings for bitmap fonts are suddenly much warmer.
- mega-volt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0got to be the most pointless thing i have ever seen...
- mouser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0server is undergoing heavy load and databse issues, but you can still download dina font here: http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Jibz/Dina/index.html
- Korvaras, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^Not pointless to a typographer, or a graphic designer^
- thecwin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why do these ClearType shots have like reds and greens on the edges of the characters on my system. I use standard RGB subpixel antialiasing on GNOME and don't see any colours at the edges of characters (unless I look really close)
- oepapel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Why do these ClearType shots have like reds and greens on the edges of the characters on my system. I use standard RGB subpixel antialiasing on GNOME and don't see any colours at the edges of characters (unless I look really close)"
Your screen must have a different RGB subpixel order. If you take a screenshot from an LCD with RGB ordering and view it on a screen with BGR ordering, you will get what you describe. I see no effects like you descrbe. - mbiesz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What about Consolas? I have been using it for over half a year, and have never looked for another font since (at 9 pt. size for best effect).
- Sixcolors, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Who knew that such lively conversation could be held over monospaced fonts?
- mentor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Meh. Using ClearType rendering for a portable screenshot as a comparison of fonts is...not the brightest thing ever done. Of course, I reserve judgement waiting on a standard screenshot.
But, Andale Mono, Crystal, an BVSM look good. Not sure what they're talking about when referring to the numbers. - reptile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A slightly different comparison:
http://kaishaku.org.nyud.net:8080/codefonts/ - mtanderson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0++ for Consolas on Windows
- sandrj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I like good fonts
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