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Programming With Proportional Fonts?

Posted by timothy on from the now-that's-wild-and-crazy dept.

theodp writes "Betty or Veronica? Mary Ann or Ginger? Proportional or Monospaced? There's renewed interest in an old blog post by Maas-Maarten Zeeman, in which M-MZ made the case for programming with proportional fonts, citing studies that show proportional fonts can be read 14% faster than fixed-width fonts. Try it for a couple of weeks, he suggests, and you might like it too. Nowadays, Lucida Grande is M-MZ's font of choice on OS X, and he uses Lucida Sans on Windows. Helvetica, anyone?"

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  1. prophecy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    this guys just trying to ensure the prophecy of the helvetica wars is fulfilled

  2. For bug-free code ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    MS Comic Sans is simply the best. My code doesn't have bugs, it has bloopers and out-takes.

  3. They're doing it wrong by CdBee · · Score: 4, Funny

    /. is meant to be the font of all knowledge, not the knowledge of all fonts

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  4. Re:Monaco by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bah, you kids and your unique characters. I use fixedsys, and typing the wrong characters has never been a pr0blem.

  5. Re:Monaco by Dun+Malg · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now if you could simulate a long persistence phosphor.

    It's just not the same without a permanently burned-in login prompt

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