whats wrong with 'coder' - he is someone who writes code.
the one i find confusing is 'developer' its vague and pretentious vs. 'programmer' my preferred term - its precisely descriptive, a quality which i would expect programmers to cherish
The one that bugs me is people who describe themselves as just 'consultant'. I've met two of the following.
Yes, a consultant, but what kind? 'I'm a consultant' Yes, but what do people consult you for? 'For when they need consulting' Yes, but about what? Are you a medical consultant, a security consultant, a civil engineer, a financial consultant, legal, something else? [puzzled look] "I'm - a - consultant."
I've been using the font for years on both openSUSE and ubuntu and never seen the problem. Then again, the page says it only shows up at 12pt, which is not a font size I use.
I really like Anonymous Pro and use it most of the time on my OS X machines. When not using Anonymous Pro, I also really like Adobe's Source Code Pro (free, and even on GitHub):
Can a vim nerd respond with how to display-time-remap a normal tilde to another unicode codepoint? There are at least four tilde-like glyphs that may be cast by any middling magician of the Unicode elements: ~⁓〜˜
I pointed it out because many people use Windows XP, OS X, Android, or iOS. All those OSes (as well as UNIX clones and variants) don’t come with the font pre-installed.
Monaco is my favorite as well. Actually I think it's slightly less readable then bitstream vera or consolas, but Monaco has some kind of angular personality to it that makes more emotionally satisfying to read and program in, than the others
I was wondering why the MonoFur example was in italics, then I tried it out in Sublime - for some reason it uses the Italic version as if it is the regular version, and I haven't found a way of fixing that. Does anyone have any suggestions?
What I really like about Source Code Pro is that it has a 'Light' version, which looks absolutely perfect on OSX with its fatty font rendering. Before this, I used to always have t acclimate between Ubuntu and OSX and Windows, but not anymore!
One thing I do when using Source Code Pro is shorten up the line spacing a bit. There's a slider to do it in iTerm2, and you can use these options in Sublime Text:
>> "linePaddingTop": 8,
>> "linePaddingBottom": 8
By default that family of fonts almost seems double-spaced to me, otherwise I really like them.
It is surprisingly hard to obtain a consistent font rendering across OSX, Windows and Linux. I had to play with the weight of the fonts, but also the font size (on Windows, my font is 3pt smaller than on OSX...). Irritating, especially when you actually synchronize your configuration files.
I agree, and the main irritant has to be OSX and its refusal to do any hinting or 'sharpening' at lower point sizes. I hoped the retina will make it better, but amazingly, it doesn't quite enough, fonts still look too fat and rounded on the edges!
Neat. I'd love to see a site that separates by platform. The different font rendering of OS X and Windows is significant and I tend to pick different fonts for them.
I've tried other fonts, nothing compares to Source Code Pro. You never really notice how much a decent font impacts how you read until you replace it with something else.
This is the first time I've come across this font. Tried it and I really like it; it comes across as clear/sharp without sacrificing the smoothness (this is based on what I can see on Win 7 with Putty and ClearType enabled). I think I'll continue to use it.
This is a super excellent font. It was my font of choice for years and years. I've only recently switched to Meslo (https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font) but more for the sake of change than any complaint about Anonymous Pro.
One feature I would like to see in a font: Really awesome Unicode support. With characters like all the subscript/superscript digits and letters. And all the combining diacritics (like hat, dots, double dots, overlines, vector arrows etc.).
Also, some fonts are monospaced in the ASCII set, but not for less common characters such as typographic quoted.
Do you know a font that qualifies here? Because Unicode is super awesome!
Could you please show an example on the site that's not CSS (or at least it's a different one)?
In that image there are a lot of important glyphs that cannot be seen, for example:
()[]/*|!
I haven't tried out the font, so I can't give much feedback on it, but it seems nice so far (although the '1' looks a little bit weird. I get why, but it still feels off to me)
its a shame - the 'standard' size 10 s is ugly, and rendering on smaller sizes is less than ideal - anti-aliasing is not taken advantage of especially well.
back to lucida console for me, which is perfectly legible at size 6 or 7... :/
This looks like a great font. I love Inconsolata—I've used it for more than a few months now, and it's extremely good. I've tried Monaco, Monaco Lives, Menlo (I think?) etc. and keep going back to Inconsolata. :-)
Increasingly, professional typeface designers working today are coders as well. The OpenType format for fonts allows designers to program font behaviour, often in pretty sophisticated ways. These range from standard typographic niceties like automatic substitution of a pre-defined sequence of glyphs with a ligature, to contextual substitutions of alternates to make a handwriting font more natural-looking, to even more creative explorations of the possibilities of the OpenType format.
In addition, many designers are taking advantage of scripting to automate parts of the design process. For example, Mark Simonson, the designer of the Anonymous Pro featured here, wrote a script to help you in generating pangrams: http://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/pangrammer-helper-...
This example is only tangentially related to the typeface design process, but if you're interested about the intersection of typeface design and technology, you can look up videos from the Robothon conferences to see what the possibilities are.
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https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=anonymous+font
the one i find confusing is 'developer' its vague and pretentious vs. 'programmer' my preferred term - its precisely descriptive, a quality which i would expect programmers to cherish
Yes, a consultant, but what kind? 'I'm a consultant' Yes, but what do people consult you for? 'For when they need consulting' Yes, but about what? Are you a medical consultant, a security consultant, a civil engineer, a financial consultant, legal, something else? [puzzled look] "I'm - a - consultant."
Boring conversation anyway...
Only Bill Gates was dumb enough to default to a backslash.
in this font, the 1 is quite distinct, but the l seems too closely similar.
I like the default font in sublime, and how it clearly indicates and l by having a vertical line with lower right and upper left serifs
http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro.... https://github.com/adobe/source-code-pro
And on Windows? Either Anonymous Pro or Consolas. Having nice fonts for coding just feels so good. :)
http://www.slant.co/topics/67/~what-are-the-best-programming...
Most popular: Source Code Pro
http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro....
Monaco, my favorite, comes at #3.
http://www.marksimonson.com/assets/content/fonts/AnonymousPr...
Programmers designing fonts is cute but it's not good idea. Lucas de Groot knew what he was doing.
Only on Windows Vista/7/8.
I love Monaco also, but only unaliased at about 10pt. Otherwise, I use Menlo or DejaVu Sans Mono usually.
I've known about Anonymous Pro, but have not given it much usage yet to decide if I like it more than others.
You're right that the font seems to lack italics, anyone know whether this is just Sublime faking it?
Here is the ticket on Github: https://github.com/adobe/source-code-pro/issues/6
Still, I wonder if the bug is with Sublime or the font (since other fonts don't seem to have this problem).
>> "linePaddingTop": 8,
>> "linePaddingBottom": 8
By default that family of fonts almost seems double-spaced to me, otherwise I really like them.
The link to Proggy Clean redirects to Groupon, it can be downloaded here instead: http://www.dafont.com/proggy-clean.font
Also, some fonts are monospaced in the ASCII set, but not for less common characters such as typographic quoted.
Do you know a font that qualifies here? Because Unicode is super awesome!
[1] http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/samples/DejaVuSansMono.pdf
In that image there are a lot of important glyphs that cannot be seen, for example: ()[]/*|!
I haven't tried out the font, so I can't give much feedback on it, but it seems nice so far (although the '1' looks a little bit weird. I get why, but it still feels off to me)
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Jibz/Dina/
It's not a bitmap font, but has a sharp, clean look.
back to lucida console for me, which is perfectly legible at size 6 or 7... :/
There's no reason be expecting a sans-serif!
In addition, many designers are taking advantage of scripting to automate parts of the design process. For example, Mark Simonson, the designer of the Anonymous Pro featured here, wrote a script to help you in generating pangrams: http://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/pangrammer-helper-...
This example is only tangentially related to the typeface design process, but if you're interested about the intersection of typeface design and technology, you can look up videos from the Robothon conferences to see what the possibilities are.