A good coding font makes a difference. Envy Code R, better than ever!(blog.activa.be)

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Am I the only one who believes a great programming font can boost your productivity and increase your coding joy? Check out Damien Guard's superb new release of Envy Code R, my favorite coding font.

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posted by danielgarydanielgary(20) 4 years ago 0

The font isn't really that great, in my opinion. I prefer monaco.

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posted by DamienGDamienG(1405) 4 years ago 0

Monaco looks great on the Mac but it's patchy on Windows... an let's not get into the dubious grey area of installing an Apple copyrighted font on Windows.

[)amien

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posted by DamienGDamienG(1405) 4 years ago 0

Oh and the fact Monaco doesn't give you bold or italics.

[)amien

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posted by dist0rti0ndist0rti0n(125) 4 years ago 0

Consolas for the win!

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posted by danielgarydanielgary(20) 3 years, 11 months ago 0

@DamienG

I'm not sure what copy of Monaco you are using, but bold and italics works fine for me.

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posted by DamienGDamienG(1405) 3 years, 11 months ago 0

There is no bold or italic version of Monaco. If you are using it on Windows what you are seeing is Windows coming up with it's own faux bold and italic versions - neither of which will honour the original metrics of the regular font and thus ruin the monospaced nature preventing you from mixing regular and bold in your IDE.

As an example open Wordpad and type ABCDEFG| on one line then copy and paste it to two more, change the font to Monaco and make the second line bold and the third line "italic". You will see they no longer line up.

[)amien

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posted by spoulsonspoulson(327) 3 years, 11 months ago 0

For my laptop display, Consolas is the best choice for me. Envy looks like the scrawny and squarish X system font but with larger character spacings. It strains my eyes, so I quickly dropped it.

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posted by damodamo(0) 3 years, 11 months ago 0

ProFont - check it out.

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