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Adobe Releases New Openly Licensed Coding Font

Posted by Unknown on from the since-when-was-adobe-this-cool dept.

tqft writes "From the sourceforge page: 'Source Sans is a set of monospaced OpenType fonts that have been designed to work well coding environments. This family of fonts is a complementary design to the Source Sans family.' License: Open Font License 1.1 (OFL 1.1) (both FSF and DFSG free). Hope to see it Debian (& other) repositories soon." The example text doesn't really look too much better than Inconsolata. But, hey, who can complain about more liberally licensed fonts?

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  1. Call me a dinosaur... by rnturn · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... but is this really better than good ol' Courier?

    Personally, I find san-serif fonts a bit of a strain to read for long periods of time. For a while Lucida typewriter was fine but I keep switching back to Courier.

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    1. Re:Call me a dinosaur... by American+AC+in+Paris · · Score: 5, Insightful

      8ut there are lots of reasons to switch away from Courier. 0ne obvious reason is that l made four easy-to-over1ook typos in this post alone.

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    2. Re:Call me a dinosaur... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      There's only three typos in your post and believe me they're very easy to see on a system where fonts are displayed properly instead of being hammered into sub-pixels.

      Nope, four:
      8ut - 8 not B
      0ne - 0 not O
      that l made - lower case L not I
      easy-to-over1ook - 1 not l

      not so easy to see I guess.

    3. Re:Call me a dinosaur... by flimflammer · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Wow, I don't think you could have made his point any better right there.

  2. Re:monospaced fonts are yucky by ichthus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Am I the only person who thinks code looks better and is more readable with proportional font spacing?

    Probably. If you did much coding where you aligned things horizontally, like with a list of #define's in C, you'd probably rethink your assertion.

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