Comments on: Favorite programmer fonts

By: Pradeep Padala

Pradeep Padala — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:58:46 +0000

Regarding internship, it’s been very productive like last year. Got some real work done and some interesting stuff.

Hope we can meet in some conference.

By: Pradeep Padala

Pradeep Padala — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:57:23 +0000

That’s interesting. I will try to tweak the settings, but I wish the fancy settings are on by default. I no longer feel like tweaking every part of Linux especially the Desktop. Anyway, I am happy with my Windows box with remote terminals right now. How can I get paid fonts for Linux?

I like the “Fresh off the press” etc. blocks, but the left-side search, related content are all distracting. They all need to be grayed out slightly or put at the top or some thing. The tags on the right side also need a better location. May be you can put all these in a gray background block like you did for others. The top header bar with the dimmed RSS icon is awesome though.

By: Diwaker Gupta

Diwaker Gupta — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:31:19 +0000

*@pradeep*: Actually I disagree here, I’ve never had a problem with my fonts looking “good” on Linux (compared to say Windows or OS X). Even if I were on Windows or any other OS, I would still have gone through pretty much the same set of fonts (since I rarely ever check out paid fonts). The “edges” on your alphabet might simply be a problem of rendering — you might want to check your fontconfig and your font rendering settings.

Things are going good, I’m mostly here at UCSD for the summer. How was your internship? Glad you like the new look! Exactly what kind of clutter are you talking about? You mean the meta info about the post? Or the related posts?

By: Pradeep Padala

Pradeep Padala — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:14:12 +0000

Maan, fonts are the Achilles’ heel for Linux desktop. They just suck! This is one thing that I keep changing all the time. I have tried many different ones. The Gnome default ‘Monospace’ and ‘Console’ fonts are ok, but not great. Some times the edges on the alphabet always irritate me and I feel a constant urge to go back to Windows terminals (Poderosa is my favourite). Currently, I am using the Monospace regular one you mentioned, though I tried Lucide typewriter as well.

P.S. How is every thing going? I am back from HP labs to Mich.
P.P.S I really like the look of the website. You should try to reduce the clutter around the content though. It’s slightly distracting.

By: Malte Stretz

Malte Stretz — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:14:19 +0000

Lucida looks nice but the 0s look too much like the Os, especially in small script.

For quite some time I used ProFont (http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/) as my hacking font. Which is really nice but at least the free versions have the disadvantage that a lot of chars out of the ANSI range are missing. At some point I got tired installing fonts wherever I hack anyway so currently I stick with the defaults most the time.

By: Abhijit Nadgouda

Abhijit Nadgouda — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:34:04 +0000

I have used Monospace, Lucida Sans Typewriter, DejaVu Sans Mono, BPG Courier and currently using Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. Changing fonts is refreshing, especially in gvim.

Thanks for the link to Monaco, will add it to the change list :-)