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Fonts
FontsThese fonts are intended to make dense blocks of code more readable, with proportional width, greater line-spacing, and more distinguished punctuation. All of the examples are indented with spaces, not tabs. They are released to the public domain and are available in Downloads. The fonts are illustrated with a snippet taken from Rosetta Code. BitmapFor the bitmap fonts with more than one point-size available, the change is just in the line-spacing rather than size of the characters.
Dodec is essentially a translation of the old DEC Terminal font from 10 point to 12 point size.
VectorThese vector fonts lack hinting, so they look decent on screen only with strong anti-aliasing, but they print well.
Pointfree is a hack of Untyped to give something that is almost, but not completely, totally unlike a monospaced Comic Sans.
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The Trim font above is extremely readable, but I can't find a reference to it anywhere on the web. Could you please let me know where you got it?
Thanks, Jeff
So far, the Downloads page is the only place to get it.
I really like using Pointfree (because of its ability to distinguish between 1iIlL and oO0. However, I have noticed two places where it could use some improvement: Can you make the lowercase a and lowercase o more distinguishable? Can you make the dot above the i further away from the body of the i (so that it is further distinguishable from a lowercase l)?
Other than that. Truly awesome work! Where can I send you some small change or giftcard for the efforts?
I use all the above fonts myself except Pointfree. I personally find it too awkward. It seems to be the most commonly used of these, though. If I collect enough constructive criticism, I may get around to making a version 2 someday.
Quite right that the dot on the "i" needs to be more distinguished. Making a better "a" will be harder. Compare the "a"s in Comic Sans, Monaco, and Chalkboard, which were the main inspirations for Pointfree.