On 18-Apr-2010, at 05:58, Gareth Oakes wrote: > >> I have been trying to move to GVIM from Kate, but as I prefer >> proportional fonts I find the GVIM look to be to hard on my eyes. I >> have been looking up and down for a decent font that does not look >> outdated in GVIM yet has good differention betweel 0/O, I/l/1, and >> other common confusions. Could someone please recommend a font! > > Wow this generated a lot of responses :) Seeing as it's such a popular > topic I feel compelled to throw my hat in the ring! > > My personal favourite used to be Monaco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > Monaco_%28typeface%29),
I've never been a fan of Monaco. I used to use ProFont (and used it up through 10.5) despite some issue under OS X. Now I use Menlo which has all the advantages of ProFont (heavy , and ; easily distinguished from . and : for programming, distinct 1 and l and 0 and O, etc) without any of the quirkiness. I toyed with Inconsolata briefly, but I think Menlo and ProFont are both better. > but now I have migrated to Menlo and haven't > looked back. Menlo is very easy to read on my 24" 1920x1200 at size > "12", and comes in regular, bold, italic and bold+italic. I used it at 12pt in Terminal and 11 in Mail.app > FWIW, Menlo is another font based on the famous Bitstream Vera Sans > Mono. You can see a comparison of Menlo vs DejaVu Sans Mono here: > http://typophile.com/node/58625. -- 'I warn you, dragon, the human spirit is-' They never found out what it was, or at least what he thought it was, although possibly in the dark hours of a sleepless night some of them might have remembered the subsequent events and formed a pretty good and gut-churning insight, to whit, that one of the things sometimes forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human. --Guards! Guards! -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/subscribe?hl=en
