On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:33 AM, Adrian Lienhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Nov 30, 2008, at 10:35 , Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > > http://www.pinvoke.com/font/ >> >> I think that for the demo mode we should get a better font since italic "" >> is not working well. >> > > Yes, and not only for the demo font, but *all* default fonts should be > reconsidered now that we have the machinery in place. > > I don't think that the fonts of www.pinvoke.com/font/ are particularly > well suited. > > From a mail I sent on September 22, considering the code font I wrote: > > I think Bitstream Vera Sans Mono would be quite good. > I slightly prefer Monaco, which is shipped with OS X, but I don't know its > license > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco_(typeface)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco_%28typeface%29> > ). > > For an evaluation of programmer fonts see http://www.lowing.org/fonts/ > Another list can be found here: > http://wiki.macromates.com/Main/AlternativeFonts > The latter list, for example includes > http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymous.html which looks nice too. > A variable-width font should be used rather than fixed-width fonts. Smalltalk has always used variable-width fonts; it makes stuff easier to read. When deciding on a font, you need to keep in mind the vertical positioning of the hash, colon, asterisk, up-arrow and left-arrow (if used) with respect to the text they precede or follow. Otherwise your 5*5 (multiplication, should be 5×5), #symbols, selectors:, variable ← assignments, ↑ return values etc can look silly. Gulik. -- http://people.squeakfoundation.org/person/mikevdg http://gulik.pbwiki.com/
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