Favorite keyboard? Pfftcht, how about favorite font?

My keyboard collection · 28 Apr 2011, 10:33

Windows' consolas has grown on me after I have used it more.

On keys, I think that smaller letters look better.

30 Apr 2011, 14:58

Somebody shoot Mozilla.

Firefox 4 W and V look like it's rendered by a kindergartner.

30 Apr 2011, 17:05

It doesn't use its own rendering but Windows rendering (which I presume you run), and that is different on other people's computers because you can adjust it to your liking (Control Panel -> Fonts -> Adjust ClearType). I heard people complain about too bold fonts, too thin fonts, etc., while you can adjust it yourself.

02 May 2011, 17:40

Well, it's better with ClearType tuning but something is definitely up with Firefox 4 and fonts.

10 Jul 2012, 17:41

Font on the Choc Mini must be Arial?

For me it is awful in written text, but I think in single capital Letters on Keycaps it does look verry clean.
I like it, especially in these gold brown on dark brown Caps..

10 Jul 2012, 18:22

My new favorite, Roboto

http://developer.android.com/design/sty ... raphy.html

10 Jul 2012, 19:48

FireFox and IE9 use DirectWrite, not ClearType. DirectWrite is an abortion. In order to have IE9 and FF render "correctly," hardware acceleration needs to be turned off.

That's why I use Chrome. For added effect, I also use Mactype (a GL++ -like renderer): http://code.google.com/p/mactype/

BTW, my favorite font is Helvetica. Mactype renders Helvetica (and many other fonts) properly in Windows unlike ClearType.

10 Jul 2012, 20:16

rainb1ood wrote:My new favorite, Roboto

http://developer.android.com/design/sty ... raphy.html

Google took a LOT of flak from the font community regarding Roboto. I like the look of it as well, but the opinions about it out there are pretty aggressive.

11 Jul 2012, 22:34

Sans-Serif:
DejaVu Sans

Serif:
Computer Modern / Latin Modern

Monospace:
Inconsolata-g

12 Jul 2012, 05:17

sans: DIN Pro, Alte Haas Grotesk
serif/slabserif: Vitesse (slab), Sentinel (Hoefler is great!)
mono: Monaco 10 (mac default, got used to it and now I sorta like it), Liberation Sans Mono

12 Jul 2012, 06:14

typhson wrote:Font on the Choc Mini must be Arial?

For me it is awful in written text, but I think in single capital Letters on Keycaps it does look verry clean.
I like it, especially in these gold brown on dark brown Caps..

Yep Arial, it's all here:

http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?2817 ... nt-Lesson/

12 Jul 2012, 06:38

Really? Still posting geekhack links?

12 Jul 2012, 06:46

mkawa says GH will be up soon.

Don't you think it is Arial?

12 Jul 2012, 06:51

What, favorite? For me probably arial, or helvetica, for work stuff anyway.

30 Sep 2012, 07:17

In accordance with this font-thread's obligatory 'comic sans' references, i shall share this comic-sans-related link.

30 Sep 2012, 08:17

Courier

vertically aligned for work, I do like some of the ones linked in here. May have to play around.

30 Sep 2012, 23:21

Tahoma/8... without any antialiasing - die, blurry fonts, die. (http://www.sharpfonts.co.cc/ for Nobel Prize. :mrgreen:

)

(Courier New is OK, too.)

01 Oct 2012, 21:03

In the last time I slowly started to like Terminus, if I'm forced to work without a graphical environment. Otherwise I still prefer antialiased fonts.

I don't really like the Courier family, as I don't like looking on serifs. In print I prefer serifs though. But even then I don't like Courier…

Edit: D'oh! I like looking on serifs. I meant to say that I dislike them on LCDs.

01 Oct 2012, 23:25

Courier New for me.

02 Oct 2012, 09:02

Jim66 wrote:Courier New for me.

This, I'm a data admin and looking at anything in a font other then Courier New just automatically looks wrong.

02 Oct 2012, 13:18

Consolas and DejaVu Sans Mono/Menlo (Menlo being a fork of DVSM) are my favorite fixed-width typefaces.

Segoe UI is a nice UI typeface... although it's actually pretty meh on ClearType, even though it was DESIGNED for ClearType. Looks much better on an engine that goes for sub-pixel precision, like RISC OS or OS X's renderers, than on an exact pixel boundary renderer such as ClearType.

29 Nov 2012, 10:01

To revive this thread..

My two favorite monospace fonts for programming are Envy Code R VS:

and the Proggy programming fonts:

29 Nov 2012, 13:33

The problem with Envy Code R VS is the l/1 problem. Hard to tell at a quick glance, which is which.

(Still, otherwise a nice looking typeface.)

29 Nov 2012, 14:24

I agree, but I never really had a problem with that. I usually don't have numbers and characters mixed (as variable, method or class name etc) so for me it doesn't matter.

29 Nov 2012, 18:45

I like the X11 core fonts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_%28typeface%29), in 6x13:
-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1

29 Jan 2013, 21:42

Since today i was using courier new in my sourcecode editor.
I tried now the severels monospaced fonts mentioned here, and a few others, but after all I stucked on SourceCodePro:

: SourceCodeSplash.png (38.32 KiB) Viewed 84 times

It's not bitmaped, but verry smooth to read imo. I quote a developer of adobe, who tells about problems concerning
monospaced fonts (which are the same I had, and which SourceCodePro should't have that much) :geek:

To my eye, many existing monospaced font suffer from one of three problems. The first problem that I often notice is that, many monospaced fonts force lowercase letters with a very large x-height into a single width, resulting in overly condensed letter forms which result in words and text with a monotonous rhythm, which quickly becomes tedious for human eyes to process. The second problem is somewhat the opposite of the first: many monospaced fonts have lowercase letters that leave too much space in between letters, causing words and strings to not hold together. Lastly, there is a category of monospaced fonts whose details I find to be too fussy to really work well in coding applications where a programmer doesn’t want to be distracted by such things.

What else? Normal fonts: SourceSansPro is also smart, I think, but nothing special. However, I read today the first time about Roboto explicitly, I saw it here and there, and it was mentioned early in this thread, but i didn't notice it really :oops:

I like it too :thumbs

04 Feb 2013, 15:19

Favorite keyboard? Pfftcht, how about favorite font?

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