>> Inconsolata and Consolas? > > My bet: > > - Bitstream Vera Sans Mono > - DejaVu Sans Mono > - Inconsolata > - Whatever the default terminal font is on OS X
A bit of a tangent, but a while back I tried a bunch of those recommended programmer fonts, and I didn't like any of them better than the default OS X terminal font. I recall the problems were mostly that they tended to no longer fit 80 columns into my "3 tiled terminals" layout and some had oddities like underscore sticking out below the row or zero not being slashed, but then there was a whole family of things that I was just not used to. So the default was more readable simply because I'm used to it. Maybe all fonts are like that, once you get past the objective basic requirements. Also, more on topic, what's the ratio of dark fg bright bg to bright fg dark bg? Looking around at work, light-on-dark seems more common, to the point where usually I have to figure out how to disable the colorization people seem to like on internal tools because they tend to be unreadable on my dark-on-light terminals (and for whatever reason I can't stand garish syntax highlighting). But then looking around most people use the stock ubuntu terminal emulator with the default colors, so maybe they're only light-on-dark because they don't care enough to customize. Those same people seem equally happy to use the dark-on-light default in Eclipse. But I guess haskellers are less likely to stick with defaults, as demonstrated by their choice of language :) There's an interesting tension here between "pick anything reasonable and get used to it" vs. "actively search for your personal best", that actually applies to so many things in life... _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
