On Dec 22, 9:00 am, Jesus Sanchez <[email protected]> wrote: > After reading, seems people like Dejavu Sans family, I will > try it for a time and let's see, anyway, Terminus font it's > recommended. On the Sans Vs. Serif war, seems the Serif win > in paper and Sans family wins onscreen.
Serif is more readable, but requires higher resolution in order to work well. Most screens don't have that high a resolution, so sans serif wins. Most printers have at least 600 bpi, which is sufficient for the classical serif fonts (Garamond, etc., Palatino, more recently); the modern fonts (Bodoni, etc., or Computer Modern) require considerably more yet. The renderer can make a big difference: I usually use Lucida Sans Typewriter under Unix (which is called Lucida Console under Windows), but the appearance is slightly different between xterm and gvim, and when I recently wrote code displaying some text in Java, the appearance was radically different. > The "dark on light" or "light on dark" war is different. I > feel people really like light backgrounds, but in TFT screens > it's just too much light firing to my eyes, even using #999999 > and #aaaaaa grey tones, the contrast seems simply ugly. It probably depends on the screen. In the old days, with a black and white CRT, looking at a light background all day actually hurt my eyes. So I'm used to dark, and use it for gvim and xterm. On the other hand, I now regularly use a light background in Firefox, and it doesn't seem to bother me. -- James Kanze (GABI Software) email:[email protected] Conseils en informatique orientée objet/ Beratung in objektorientierter Datenverarbeitung 9 place Sémard, 78210 St.-Cyr-l'École, France, +33 (0)1 30 23 00 34 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
