Quoting Joe Pfeiffer (pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu): > Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflyby...@gmail.com> writes: > > > One more then I hear my bird feeders calling. Couple days ago I was > > trying to find a pirate friendly font via an "apt-cache search" > > inquiry. No pirates (that weren't part of a *2GB* package, yarrrrr!), > > but stumbled on a font called "Anonymous Pro" that is billed as a > > "fixed width sans serif font designed for coders". > > > > Further description is: "Anonymous Pro (2009) is a family of four > > fixed-width fonts designed especially with coding in mind. Characters > > that could be mistaken for one another (O, 0, I, l, 1, etc.) have > > distinct shapes to make them easier to tell apart in the context of > > source code." > > > > Since I had just like the day before installed "devscripts", it > > sounded like a potential win worth pursuing. It looks very similar to > > Monospace, but my brain still keeps actively noticing that there is > > definitely a user-friendly difference.. > > > > Sharing because it might just help someone else who spends a lot of > > time using terminals. As I write that, for some reason it comes to > > mind that it may be standard with large installs. If not, the package > > name again is ttf-anonymous-pro. > > Looks interesting -- I've been using Terminus for quite a while -- it's > another fixed-width programmer-friendly font, Comparing it with > Anonymous Pro, it seems a bit narrows and doesn't seem to have as much > variation in apparent weight (Anonymous Pro's W is so much darker than > the other characters on a line I'm looking at that it looks like it's in > Bold!).
So you've installed it? Are you using it in a VC or an xterm? I'm not sure how you would use it: the package contains four TTF files and that's it. Cheers, David.