On Saturday 20 December 2008, Jesus Sanchez wrote: > Hi there, last week I was spending a couple of hours coding > and I wondered what kind of fonts are the "Pro's" favourites. > After 8 hours in front of the screen my eyes hurt, and I thought > people have suffered this issue before. > I'm working on a really loaded OpenBSD machine and I > try to keep things simple, without gvim, antialiased fonts > and all that stuff, only an aterm window and Vim :) to keep > the minimal CPU ussage. > > Despite the external factors as ambient light, CRT or LCD > screen, the "dark on light" or "light on dark" theme dilema... > > what fonts do you think are better for long hour sessions? > > some of my favourite options are Courier-like fonts, buts > lacks on the letter "o" , "l" and number "0" and "1". At the other > side the "Terminus" font looks great, I recommend it. > > Thanks for reading :) > -Jesus >
As mentioned by others, fonts are highly subjective. I spend about 10 hours a day in front of the computer. I usually choose fonts without serifs. What I have found really helped was to switch to gvim (over vim) and use a white background with dark text. By reducing the contrast of the area within my field of view, my headaches dropped off dramatically. For a short time I switched back to a dark background with bright text and the headaches returned. Not a really scientific experiment but one that was telling; at least for me. Noel -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Noel Henson www.noels-lab.com Chips, firmware and embedded systems www.vimoutliner.org Work fast. Think well. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
