Re: font change
Re: font change
- Subject: Re: font change
- From: Quincey Morris <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:39:14 -0700
On Aug 31, 2009, at 11:57, Jens Alfke wrote:
The fact is that, just as in any other area of typography, there are
dozens of typefaces to choose from*, with different pros and cons,
and people have very personal reasons for liking or disliking them.
I prefer Courier or Consolas, myself. Arguments about which fonts
are better or worse are as pointless as arguments about brace
placement. It's trivially easy to change the font, so just set it to
whatever you like best and it'll stay that way forever.
Agreed that the font preference discussions are a waste of time (at
least here). I'd have given you the last word, except that you made me
go investigate Menlo widths a little more systematically, with the
result that I have to eat my words. So for the record ...
a. It looks like the character widths in Menlo are almost (or perhaps
exactly) the same as for Monaco, in 10, 11 and 12 point sizes. This
includes the weirdness that 11 and 12 point have almost (or perhaps
exactly) the same widths as each other. Anything I earlier said that
suggested the contrary was a misperception.
b. The character sizes (roughly, the glyph outline bounding boxes) in
Menlo are very similar to Monaco. At 10 points, ignoring the anti-
aliasing, the character shapes are fairly similar at the pixel level
(although the overall effect is somewhat different). Anything I
earlier said that suggested the contrary was a misperception.
c. Mostly, what is different between the fonts is that (perhaps due to
Menlo 10 being rendered with anti-aliasing that's not present in
Monaco 10) the counters (interior white spaces of the characters) are
significantly narrower in Menlo, which gives the font a rather
condensed look at that size.
So it wasn't those Apple kids on my lawn after all. This time. ;)
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