On 23/12/08 18:21, Gene Kwiecinski wrote:
>> Despite the external factors as ambient light, CRT or LCD
>> screen, the "dark on light" or "light on dark" theme dilema...
>
> Me personally, I prefer light-on-dark, else the blinding white
> background, even "light gray" instead of #FFFFFF, is just like staring
> into the sun. *That* gives me a headache...
>
>
>> what fonts do you think are better for long hour sessions?
>
> I tend to prefer plain ol' Lucida, but almost *all* fonts are only
> really readable in bigger fontsizes, else smaller-size fonts end up
> distorting characters, like '0's turning into rectangles (to distinguish
> them from 'O's), indistinguishable directional squotes/dquotes and
> "{([])}"s, '9' looking like a superscript 'g', etc.
>
> Some of the "programming fonts" I've seen only come in certain sizes,
> usually only in multiples (eg, 6pt, 12pt, 18pt), so if you don't like
> the particular size closest to what you want, you usually gotta scale up
> to something huge and bannerlike, or down to something microscopic and
> unreadable.
This depends on the font you're using: bitmap fonts usually come only in
a few well-defined sizes, and if you want something else you see the
pixels expanded to squares. Vector fonts (true-type, open-type, Adobe
Type 1, etc.), on the contrary, can be scaled to almost any size, and
the lines and curves are redrawn at that size.
Best regards,
Tony.
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