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You know of a sans serif typeface with easily distinguishable uppercase "I" and lowercase "L"? Oh, I see... Comic Sans MS.
P.S. Bear in mind that those bars at the top and bottom of I are serifs; Comic Sans and Tahoma aren't truly sans serif.
modified on Monday, June 30, 2008 2:13 PM
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I doubt the fact the code with serifs is more buggy. Come on, its just a bunch of letters. You get just as much bugs with consolas
However I do agree that code is easier to read with a sans-serif font.
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Envy Code R is really a good font: thank god for this poll - it changed my life!!!
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I tried it a while back when someone here mentioned it. I didn't like it.
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To the current 27% who voted "Don't care" I'd wager you would care if the default font was a poor choice e.g. Comic Sans.
Typography is a subtle craft that when done best you don't know about and don't have to care about. But when it is done poorly it can negatively impact on your productivity and state of mind.
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Yes, it should probably read "Don"t know, don"t care, I use whatever is default, which is usually Courier New". Mind you, I've worked with a few people who would've coded better if the default was Wingdings.
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I voted "I don't care", but that's because the default font is always a good choice, all code editors use monospaced fonts by default.
For instance, when I have to paste some code snippet in Word, I do use a monospace font (I added a style to normal.dot and all and all).
Hmm, maybe I should have voted "Courier New".
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Paul Watson wrote: the default font was a poor choice e.g. Comic Sans
I dunno. Comic Sans is pretty readable compared to one of the decorative typefaces like Script or Chiller, or one of the symbol fonts like WingDings .
Paul Watson wrote: Typography is a subtle craft that when done best you don't know about and don't have to care about. But when it is done poorly it can negatively impact on your productivity and state of mind.
Agreed. We build high-speed inkjet printers, and in our lower-resolution days (120 and 240 dots per inch) we spent a great deal of time hand-tweaking fonts.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: ne of the symbol fonts like WingDings
Realtime obfuscation and encryption all-in-one!
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Sorry, still don't care
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Yeah, well, you don't care about UI at all anyway
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Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote: At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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Paul Watson wrote: you don't care about UI at all anyway
Not completely true But pretty much every code editor I have tried has decent default fonts, and that's enough for me.
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Never mind, the ratio of barbarians to coding professionals has swung way up in recent years here.
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I use Arial and I am very happy with it. It saves a lot of space. There is no need for a mono spaced font.
Give it a try and let us know!
Patrik
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I've tried once, several years ago. Doesn't work for me. I expect certain segments ogf code to line upbeyond indentation.
Someone, somewhere demoed a "smart tabs feature for an editor: tab positions would be determined dynamically, so if multiple sequential lines use tabs, code would line up. I'd give that a try.
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performis wrote: saves a lot of space
How does it save space? Why do you need to save "space" when coding?
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I have 2 19 inch monitors. I code on the left side. According to the actual newsletter comment (NASA unveils 128-screen visualization system:
"I'd finally have room for all the VS windows") I have probably to many VS windows open. So it happens, that I can't see the whole line (mostly comments or when I use some Resource calls (My.ResThisIsMySpecialResourceNameSpaceInThisCase.ThisIsTheTextThatIWouldLikeToShowLBL) as parameter).
With a proportional font, I see simply more on one line.
First, it is kind of weird, but I got used to this many many years ago using Enfin (Smalltalk).
Thats all.
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performis wrote: So it happens, that I can't see the whole line (mostly comments
Obviously it is your code but most code I've enjoyed working with has a character limit at which point it is wrapped by the programmer. Comments in particular never go over 60 characters.
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Paul Watson wrote: Obviously it is your code but most code I've enjoyed working with has a character limit at which point it is wrapped by the programmer.
Indeed--I limit myself to 120 characters per line, so I can print everything without a single line wrap.
But most importantly, on a monitor capable of 1920 pixels horizontally, then at 120 characters per line, I can split the editor window vertically and show the content of two source files side-by-side without scrolling horizontally.
Without the line breaks, I have to start scrolling horizontally. OTOH, if I stick to showing one code file only, then most of the right half of the space is "wasted"...I find my current setup to be the best compromise and makes the best use of the available space.
Floating windows/explorer/browser/etc go on a secondary monitor.
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Yeah I agree entirely.
I think my limit is around 80 characters for comments particularly, probably a hold over from the dos programming days or even earlier.
Although with my wide screen monitor I'm probably going a bit wider.
Trying to parse code visually that required a proportional font would drive me up the wall.
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Paul Watson wrote: Why do you need to save "space" when coding?
It would certainly save horizontal space, to allow you to read long lines of code without scrolling, and therefore give you more room for toolbars, etc.
I'm too afraid to try variable-width fonts though, for some reason.
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logan1337 wrote: and therefore give you more room for toolbars, etc.
Oh god.
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Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote: At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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That was rather rude. If you have something to say, say it. There was nothing offensive about what I wrote to warrant such tone.
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