What font do you use in your terminal window? I'm a Lucida Sans Typewriter fan myself. I've just started a radical experiment, using a non-monospaced font. When I need to edit code, I open a window with a monospaced font, but for most things, it seems to be a little more readable to have a proportionally-spaced font on the screen. The only problem is that the terminal window is about twice as wide as it needs to be, apparently because it's allocating space of a row of 'm's.
--Nat
I use Courier New. Nothing original about it, but it works.
While on the subject of proportional fonts, who's the friggin' genius who made the proportional "Microsoft Sans Serif" font the default option for stored procedures and SQL in MS SQL Server? Aargh! The pain, the pain! Of course, I can go to Tools -> Font and change it, but it doesn't do anything other than warn me that I chose a non-standard font.
...grumble...
Re:I prefer the Riviera myself...
blech on 2003-02-26T14:40:29
Monaco *20pt*? Isn't that a little... large?
Personally, I've always used Monaco 9, preferably the pre Mac OS 8.6 version (which has smaller punctuation, although the I and l and 0 and O are indistinguishable, which used to be the sort of annoyance that got Profont a following. Still, I like it, enough to stick it in ~/Library/Fonts/).
That gives me 4 80x24 Terminals (or MacSSH windows, when I'm back in Mac OS 9) on my 1024x768 display, which seems about right. Black on white, of course, the way... someone at Apple, I suppose, intended it.
It's also my default for monospaced fonts in web browsers (although annoyingly Safari insists in anti-aliasing it even at 9pt).Re:I prefer the Riviera myself...
Damian on 2003-02-27T00:16:28
Isn't that a little... large?
Not when you code 10 or 12 straight hours for days on end. Making things easy on your eyes is essential.
Sure, at such a large point size I only get one terminal, which fills my entire screen. But that's what the Cmd-` key is for. I vastly prefer to flip through a temporal series of windows than to raster through a spatial array of them.
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Interestingly, I'll be talking about that very topic (amongst others) in a tutorial I'm giving at OSCON this year, focusing on non-code-specific programmer productivity techniques.
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I get two 80x40 xterms on the screen side-by-side in an 1024x768 window, with about 1/4 of the screen unused (by xterms) on the bottom. Using fixed has the added benefit of being the only configuration that will properly render mutt's ascii graphics for thread display.
I've been using 80x40 xterms with fixed font for so many years now, anything else just looks strange.
Re:Heretic
mary.poppins on 2003-02-26T01:48:07
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-1
in a 51 row, 114 column xterm, running screen with TERM set to xterm. This makes w3m-img work inside screen! Woot!
Plus it neatly fills most of a 1280x1024 display, which even cheap four-year-old graphics cards can do at a nice refresh rate.
XTerm*foreground: rgb:ff/88/12
XTerm*background: rgb:00/00/00
XTerm*cursorColor: rgb:be/00/10
The font has lines more than one pixel wide, for easy legibility. I actually switch to w3m from galeon when I want to read long text passages on web pages.
(And yes, I know I should be use an iso8859-15 font instead:)
11 point Lucida Sans Typewriter in my Carbonized emacs, and Monaco Regular 10.0 pt. in Terminal.
--David
It's the cleanest mono-spaced font I've ever seen. The dots in the middle of the zeros is really great.
I've heard people use it in Linux, which is why Microsoft withdrew it from their web site, but it's still out there, and the license allows for free distribution, if I remember correctly.
MS's "core fonts for the web"
pne on 2003-03-03T11:13:40
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
Yes, the fonts are redistributable in unaltered form, which is why those guys are doing so.
Re:MS's "core fonts for the web"
jordan on 2003-03-05T21:10:41
Somebody give this man a +1 Informative.
I knew they were still out there somewhere.
The only one I found really good was Andale Mono. I seem to remember that the rest were minor variations of questionable value.
I broke my glasses the other day, and that small font turned out to be too small. I experimented with Helvetica in my xterms. And I found out that non-monospaced fonts are pretty unusable in xterms.
Re:efont fixed
AlKo on 2004-07-16T07:44:35
Best mono font for terminal use (and source code) is the HVFont (www.procon.con.au/Fonts.htm). The TTF version HVEdit is much clearer than ProFont and the raster version is brilliant in code editors even at 8 pts.
