rlhar...@oplink.net writes: > On Mon, September 21, 2015 11:33 am, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> a font called "Anonymous Pro" that is billed as a "fixed width sans serif >> font designed for coders". >> Further description is: "Anonymous Pro (2009) is a family of four >> fixed-width fonts designed especially with coding in mind. Characters >> that >> could be mistaken for one another (O, 0, I, l, 1, etc.) have distinct >> shapes to make them easier to tell apart in the context of source code." > > Regarding disambiguity, Courier is one of the best fonts; likewise Times > Roman. The only problem with Times Roman with respect to coding is that > it is not fixed-width.
And courier is downright ugly. > Sans-serif is not a desirable attribute, except for certain applications > such as newspaper headlines. Studies have shown that serif fonts are more > readable and less fatiguing, because the serifs of a letter or numeral > convey much information. It may be billed as sans serif, but there are a number of characters in the font that do indeed have serifs. > But Americans crave novelty, so there always is a market for the > "different" when it is claimed to be "new" and "improved".