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Tweaking my favorite programming font, Anonymous Pro 3 Feb 2011 | 01:47 am
After trying out every monospaced font I could get my hands on, I decided that Mark Simonson‘s Anonymous Pro is the one for me: After using it in my IDE for months, I decided to start using it in my ...
Iterating on Font Pair Comparisons 1 Feb 2011 | 02:58 am
The previous post generated some great suggestions in the Hacker News discussion. I’ve incorporated some of the feedback and here’s a summary of the changes: Changed the colors to improve contrast ...
Comparing Programming Font Pairs 27 Jan 2011 | 04:46 pm
I really like this visualization of the difference between Deja Vu Sans Mono and Apple Menlo: (Credit to Jesse Burgheimer) I decided to take a stab at programmatically generating a similar compariso...
Comparing Troublesome Groups 27 Jan 2011 | 02:47 pm
One of the comments on the reddit discussion of my first post suggested looking at groups of characters that might be troublesome: As a quick test, I wrote something to compare every pair of characte...
101 vs. lol – More Fonts 26 Jan 2011 | 01:36 pm
As requested in the reddit discussion, here are Envy Code R, Liberation Mono, and Terminus:
101 vs. lol 25 Jan 2011 | 04:07 pm
One of the subtle details of fonts that programmers often care about is how easy it is to distinguish between O’s, 0′s, l’s, and 1′s. Using Mathematica, we can programmatically generate the compariso...
