[Reflowed as a bottom post to forestall whining from the usual suspects] 2011/10/9 Александр Куринный <kurin...@gmail.com> > On 9 October 2011 00:12, George V. Reilly <geo...@reilly.org> wrote: > > Since monospaced fonts are a perennial topic of discussion here, I'll > > mention the new Ubuntu Mono font, which can be downloaded from > > http://font.ubuntu.com/ > > > > The recent 0.80 release of the Ubuntu Fonts includes Ubuntu Mono in > > Regular, Regular Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic variants. It's the > > default font for the Terminal in next week's release of Oneiric > > Ocelot, Ubuntu 11.10. I've tried it in MacVim and Gnome Gvim and it > > looks decent. As the version number implies, the fonts (particularly > > Mono) are a work in progress. > > In terminal they look really bad)
Some, including me, like Ubuntu Mono in Terminal. > Looks more like famous Comic Sans=) Apparently, Ubuntu Mono is being tweaked (but not designed) by Vincent Connare, the designer of Comic Sans: http://design.canonical.com/2011/09/ubuntu-monospace-beta/. He also designed Trebuchet, which is a much more respectable font. > Letter "M" - why did they do it?! That's been controversial. See the above link for some background. Also, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+bug/869961 > My choise for terminal is Liberation Mono. -- /George V. Reilly geo...@reilly.org Twitter: @georgevreilly http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog http://blogs.cozi.com/tech -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
