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  • (Score: 2) by martyb on Sunday March 04 2018, @03:54PM (2 children)

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 04 2018, @03:54PM (#647636) Journal

    For emacs, I use "Lucida Console". I have different scripts to start emacs in everything from tiny fonts on small window, tiny font on wide and tall, and larger font on wide and tall... depending on what I am looking at (code, log files, program output, etc.)

    For CMD windows, I prefer using "Raster Fonts" set to 8x12... but I also load ansicon [github.com] so I can set a color for the command prompt that is different from the color of commands I issue and the responses. Took some finagling to get it working, but would never go back to a monochrome cmd window again if I can help it.

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  • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Wednesday March 07 2018, @04:01PM

    by RamiK (1813) on Wednesday March 07 2018, @04:01PM (#649032)

    Consider Go: https://go.googlesource.com/image/+/master/font/gofont/ttfs/ [googlesource.com] https://blog.golang.org/go-fonts [golang.org]

    It's a Lucida variant that was tweaked to match the DIN legibility specs. In retrospect and considering the release timing, I suspect B&H made it after Lucida and Helvetica were dumped by Apple over the DIN specs. But when Apple still decided to opt for their in-house Helvetica DIN knockoff (aka San Francisco), they made it available to the Go folks that are fans of their work since the plan9 days.

    Well, my wild flights of fancy aside, if you like Lucida I think it should be right up your alley.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday March 09 2018, @03:18PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 09 2018, @03:18PM (#650005) Journal

    I've tried quite a few. But I settled on Lucidia Console when using Eclipse on Windows. I want more lines of text visible, which it has; but the glyphs also have a proper aspect ratio so I get a decent number of characters per line without making characters too narrow.

    But everyone has their preferences. And I know mine have changed over the decades. (Probably as my eyes get older and older. But I still don't need glasses to read the monitor.)

    I don't remember what I'm using for Eclipse on Linux at home.

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