Favorite keyboard? Pfftcht, how about favorite font?

[Findecanor]

Windows' consolas has grown on me after I have used it more.

On keys, I think that smaller letters look better.

[ripster]

Somebody shoot Mozilla.

Firefox 4 W and V look like it's rendered by a kindergartner.

[webwit]

It doesn't use its own rendering but Windows rendering (which I presume you run), and that is different on other people's computers because you can adjust it to your liking (Control Panel -> Fonts -> Adjust ClearType). I heard people complain about too bold fonts, too thin fonts, etc., while you can adjust it yourself.

[ripster]

Well, it's better with ClearType tuning but something is definitely up with Firefox 4 and fonts.

[typhson]

Font on the Choc Mini must be Arial?

For me it is awful in written text, but I think in single capital Letters on Keycaps it does look verry clean.
I like it, especially in these gold brown on dark brown Caps..

[rainb1ood]

My new favorite, Roboto


http://developer.android.com/design/sty ... raphy.html

[itlnstln]

FireFox and IE9 use DirectWrite, not ClearType. DirectWrite is an abortion. In order to have IE9 and FF render "correctly," hardware acceleration needs to be turned off.

That's why I use Chrome. For added effect, I also use Mactype (a GL++ -like renderer): http://code.google.com/p/mactype/

BTW, my favorite font is Helvetica. Mactype renders Helvetica (and many other fonts) properly in Windows unlike ClearType.

[harrison]

My new favorite, Roboto


http://developer.android.com/design/sty ... raphy.html

Google took a LOT of flak from the font community regarding Roboto. I like the look of it as well, but the opinions about it out there are pretty aggressive.

[RC-1140]

Sans-Serif:
DejaVu Sans

Serif:
Computer Modern / Latin Modern

Monospace:
Inconsolata-g

[sth]

sans: DIN Pro, Alte Haas Grotesk
serif/slabserif: Vitesse (slab), Sentinel (Hoefler is great!)
mono: Monaco 10 (mac default, got used to it and now I sorta like it), Liberation Sans Mono

[ripster]

Font on the Choc Mini must be Arial?

For me it is awful in written text, but I think in single capital Letters on Keycaps it does look verry clean.
I like it, especially in these gold brown on dark brown Caps..

Yep Arial, it's all here:

http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?2817 ... nt-Lesson/

[TexasFlood]

Really? Still posting geekhack links?

[ripster]

mkawa says GH will be up soon.

Don't you think it is Arial?

[TexasFlood]

What, favorite? For me probably arial, or helvetica, for work stuff anyway.

[ferociousfingerings]

In accordance with this font-thread's obligatory 'comic sans' references, i shall share this comic-sans-related link.

[dirge]

Courier vertically aligned for work, I do like some of the ones linked in here. May have to play around.

[Biernot]

Tahoma/8... without any antialiasing - die, blurry fonts, die. (http://www.sharpfonts.co.cc/ for Nobel Prize. )

(Courier New is OK, too.)

[RC-1140]

In the last time I slowly started to like Terminus, if I'm forced to work without a graphical environment. Otherwise I still prefer antialiased fonts.

I don't really like the Courier family, as I don't like looking on serifs. In print I prefer serifs though. But even then I don't like Courier…

Edit: D'oh! I like looking on serifs. I meant to say that I dislike them on LCDs.

[Jim66]

Courier New for me.

[HzFaq]

Courier New for me.

This, I'm a data admin and looking at anything in a font other then Courier New just automatically looks wrong.

[bhtooefr]

Consolas and DejaVu Sans Mono/Menlo (Menlo being a fork of DVSM) are my favorite fixed-width typefaces.

Segoe UI is a nice UI typeface... although it's actually pretty meh on ClearType, even though it was DESIGNED for ClearType. Looks much better on an engine that goes for sub-pixel precision, like RISC OS or OS X's renderers, than on an exact pixel boundary renderer such as ClearType.

[ne0phyte]

To revive this thread..

My two favorite monospace fonts for programming are Envy Code R VS:


and the Proggy programming fonts:

[bhtooefr]

The problem with Envy Code R VS is the l/1 problem. Hard to tell at a quick glance, which is which.

(Still, otherwise a nice looking typeface.)

[ne0phyte]

I agree, but I never really had a problem with that. I usually don't have numbers and characters mixed (as variable, method or class name etc) so for me it doesn't matter.

[Daniel]

I like the X11 core fonts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_%28typeface%29), in 6x13:
-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1

[typhson]

Since today i was using courier new in my sourcecode editor.
I tried now the severels monospaced fonts mentioned here, and a few others, but after all I stucked on SourceCodePro:

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It's not bitmaped, but verry smooth to read imo. I quote a developer of adobe, who tells about problems concerning
monospaced fonts (which are the same I had, and which SourceCodePro should't have that much)

To my eye, many existing monospaced font suffer from one of three problems. The first problem that I often notice is that, many monospaced fonts force lowercase letters with a very large x-height into a single width, resulting in overly condensed letter forms which result in words and text with a monotonous rhythm, which quickly becomes tedious for human eyes to process. The second problem is somewhat the opposite of the first: many monospaced fonts have lowercase letters that leave too much space in between letters, causing words and strings to not hold together. Lastly, there is a category of monospaced fonts whose details I find to be too fussy to really work well in coding applications where a programmer doesn’t want to be distracted by such things.

What else? Normal fonts: SourceSansPro is also smart, I think, but nothing special. However, I read today the first time about Roboto explicitly, I saw it here and there, and it was mentioned early in this thread, but i didn't notice it really
I like it too :thumbs

[Scheider]

[bhtooefr]

Bumping to note that I find I'm liking TI Uni a lot as a monospace font.



Bundled with the tools for TI calculators. Looks better on OS X than Windows, but looks decent on Windows too.

[mr_a500]

Bah! I make my own fonts. I made fonts for Amiga, Mac OSX and even the fonts on my Sansa Clip+.

Yes, I'm a bit of a perfectionist freak.