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reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
I was looking at 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169 and that 
bold sans serif proportional text for the code is just... well let's say 
it's time to replace it.

What would be a good code font to use for those?


Thanks,

Andrei
Dec 16 2015
next sibling parent reply "H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d" <digitalmars-d puremagic.com> writes:
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 04:05:27PM -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
wrote:

 I was looking at
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169 and that
 bold sans serif proportional text for the code is just... well let's
 say it's time to replace it.
 
 What would be a good code font to use for those?


[...]

Any monospaced font should do?


T

-- 
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друзьями.
Dec 16 2015
next sibling parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 12/16/2015 04:32 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:

 On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 04:05:27PM -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu via
Digitalmars-d wrote:

 I was looking at
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169 and that
 bold sans serif proportional text for the code is just... well let's
 say it's time to replace it.

 What would be a good code font to use for those?


 [...]

 Any monospaced font should do?


Preferably a nice one. -- Andrei
Dec 16 2015
parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 12/16/2015 3:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 Preferably a nice one. -- Andrei


I prefer bad ones. -- Walter
Dec 18 2015
prev sibling parent Kagamin <spam here.lot> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:32:29 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:

 Any monospaced font should do?


Monospaced fonts have a common problem that they display "mm" as 
a tight knot of vertical lines (relevant for the commonPrefix 
example in the pull).
Dec 17 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Jack Stouffer <jack jackstouffer.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:

 I was looking at 
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169 
 and that bold sans serif proportional text for the code is 
 just... well let's say it's time to replace it.

 What would be a good code font to use for those?


 Thanks,

 Andrei


I would just like to reiterate what I said in the other thread. 
Please don't use custom, downloaded fonts unless we do some 
optimizations on the website.

On that note: Andrei, how do I get in contact with whoever runs 
the server to get that going?

As for a good font that is supported on all browsers natively, 
courier new is good.
Dec 16 2015
next sibling parent tcak <1ltkrs+3wyh1ow7kzn1k sharklasers.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:40:13 UTC, Jack Stouffer 
wrote:

 On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei 
 Alexandrescu wrote:

 I was looking at 
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169 
 and that bold sans serif proportional text for the code is 
 just... well let's say it's time to replace it.

 What would be a good code font to use for those?


 Thanks,

 Andrei


 I would just like to reiterate what I said in the other thread. 
 Please don't use custom, downloaded fonts unless we do some 
 optimizations on the website.

 On that note: Andrei, how do I get in contact with whoever runs 
 the server to get that going?

 As for a good font that is supported on all browsers natively, 
 courier new is good.


Just set style "font-family: monospace", and there you go. I 
don't think we even
need to discuss a change like this.
Dec 16 2015
prev sibling parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 12/16/2015 04:40 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote:

 On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 I was looking at
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169 and that
 bold sans serif proportional text for the code is just... well let's
 say it's time to replace it.

 What would be a good code font to use for those?


 Thanks,

 Andrei


 I would just like to reiterate what I said in the other thread. Please
 don't use custom, downloaded fonts unless we do some optimizations on
 the website.


Sure, testing the speed impact of the change would be great.


 On that note: Andrei, how do I get in contact with whoever runs the
 server to get that going?


Jan Knepper is our webmaster. You can find his contact info at 
https://www.janknepper.com/.


 As for a good font that is supported on all browsers natively, courier
 new is good.


I was hoping for a nicer one and courier new as a fallback.


Andrei
Dec 16 2015
next sibling parent Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2015-12-17 00:25, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:


 I was hoping for a nicer one and courier new as a fallback.


I use Menlo. I think that's default in TextMate, perhaps Xcode is uing 
that as well. Before that I used Monaco. I'm pretty sure they are both 
available by default on OS X. I'm not sure if it needs to be the same 
font on all platforms.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Dec 17 2015
prev sibling parent Jack Stouffer <jack jackstouffer.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 23:25:01 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:

 On that note: Andrei, how do I get in contact with whoever 
 runs the
 server to get that going?


 Jan Knepper is our webmaster. You can find his contact info at 
 https://www.janknepper.com/.


It seems his email server is down. Do you know of any other way 
to contact him?
Dec 18 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent John Colvin <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:

 I was looking at 
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169 
 and that bold sans serif proportional text for the code is 
 just... well let's say it's time to replace it.

 What would be a good code font to use for those?


 Thanks,

 Andrei


I like Prestige Elite Std (or Prestige Elite), Latin Modern Mono 
and Cutive Mono. Cutive Mono is free on google fonts.
Dec 16 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent reply ZombineDev <valid_email he.re> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:

 I was looking at 
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169 
 and that bold sans serif proportional text for the code is 
 just... well let's say it's time to replace it.

 What would be a good code font to use for those?


 Thanks,

 Andrei


Maybe Source Code Pro by Adobe?
Dec 16 2015
parent Guillaume Piolat <first.last gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 17 December 2015 at 07:35:50 UTC, ZombineDev wrote:

 On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei 
 Alexandrescu wrote:

 I was looking at 
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169 
 and that bold sans serif proportional text for the code is 
 just... well let's say it's time to replace it.

 What would be a good code font to use for those?


 Thanks,

 Andrei


 Maybe Source Code Pro by Adobe?


+1, this is an excellent code font.
Dec 19 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:


 What would be a good code font to use for those?


http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/
Dec 17 2015
parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 12/17/2015 03:07 AM, Mike Parker wrote:

 On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:


 What would be a good code font to use for those?


 http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/


Could someone please round up this and other proposals into pull 
requests? Then we can see them displayed in Vladimir's rig. Thanks! -- 
Andrei
Dec 17 2015
parent reply Jack Stouffer <jack jackstouffer.com> writes:
On Thursday, 17 December 2015 at 13:59:14 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:

 On 12/17/2015 03:07 AM, Mike Parker wrote:

 On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei 
 Alexandrescu wrote:


 What would be a good code font to use for those?


 http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/


 Could someone please round up this and other proposals into 
 pull requests? Then we can see them displayed in Vladimir's 
 rig. Thanks! -- Andrei


https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1170
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1171
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1172
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1173

Despite people's requests, Consolas is a premium font owned by 
Microsoft, so it cannot be used. Inconsolas was included instead.
Dec 18 2015
next sibling parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 12/18/2015 04:06 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote:

 On Thursday, 17 December 2015 at 13:59:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 On 12/17/2015 03:07 AM, Mike Parker wrote:

 On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
 wrote:


 What would be a good code font to use for those?


 http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/


 Could someone please round up this and other proposals into pull
 requests? Then we can see them displayed in Vladimir's rig. Thanks! --
 Andrei


 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1170
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1171
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1172
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1173

 Despite people's requests, Consolas is a premium font owned by
 Microsoft, so it cannot be used. Inconsolas was included instead.


Cool, thanks! Shall we take one of them rigged referendums? -- Andrei
Dec 18 2015
parent reply Jack Stouffer <jack jackstouffer.com> writes:
On Friday, 18 December 2015 at 21:15:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 rigged referendums


Huh?
Dec 18 2015
parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 12/18/15 4:19 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote:

 On Friday, 18 December 2015 at 21:15:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 rigged referendums


 Huh?


Forgot the smiley - you know, all that online voting that swung wildly 
which every way. -- Andrei
Dec 18 2015
parent Jack Stouffer <jack jackstouffer.com> writes:
On Friday, 18 December 2015 at 21:48:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 On 12/18/15 4:19 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote:

 On Friday, 18 December 2015 at 21:15:48 UTC, Andrei 
 Alexandrescu wrote:

 rigged referendums


 Huh?


 Forgot the smiley - you know, all that online voting that swung 
 wildly which every way. -- Andrei


After thinking about this more, I came to believe that you should 
just pick one, merge it, and we can move on to other things, as 
we already have about six bikeshedding discussions on the front 
page of General about the website and the font of the code is 
such a minor point.
Dec 19 2015
prev sibling parent Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 12/18/2015 04:06 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote:

 On Thursday, 17 December 2015 at 13:59:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 On 12/17/2015 03:07 AM, Mike Parker wrote:

 On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
 wrote:


 What would be a good code font to use for those?


 http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/


 Could someone please round up this and other proposals into pull
 requests? Then we can see them displayed in Vladimir's rig. Thanks! --
 Andrei


 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1170
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1171
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1172
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1173

 Despite people's requests, Consolas is a premium font owned by
 Microsoft, so it cannot be used. Inconsolas was included instead.


Thanks for this work! I chose Inconsolata, 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1170. -- Andrei
Dec 29 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent Guillaume Chatelet <chatelet.guillaume gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:

 I was looking at 
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169 
 and that bold sans serif proportional text for the code is 
 just... well let's say it's time to replace it.

 What would be a good code font to use for those?


 Thanks,

 Andrei


Maybe one of the monospace fonts here
https://www.google.com/fonts

 From the about page
https://www.google.com/fonts#AboutPlace:about

"A web with web fonts is more beautiful, readable, accessible and 
open." ... "Our API service makes it easy to add Google Fonts to 
a website in seconds. The service runs on Google's servers which 
are fast, reliable and tested. Google provides this service free 
of charge." ... "All of the fonts are Open Source."
Dec 17 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent Andrea Fontana <nospam example.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:

 I was looking at 
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169 
 and that bold sans serif proportional text for the code is 
 just... well let's say it's time to replace it.

 What would be a good code font to use for those?


 Thanks,

 Andrei


https://www.google.com/fonts

Try with some text like:

0OQ iI1lL 2Z ~ () [] {}

Ubuntu Mono
Source Code Pro
Inconsolata
Dec 17 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent rumbu <rumbu rumbu.ro> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:

 I was looking at 
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169 
 and that bold sans serif proportional text for the code is 
 just... well let's say it's time to replace it.

 What would be a good code font to use for those?


 Thanks,

 Andrei


On Windows, it doesn't look so awful::

http://imgur.com/8BuNoG6

That's probably because Verdana is installed by default and the 
body style is defined as <font-family : Verdana, "Deja Vu", 
"Bitstream Vera Sans", sans-serif>
Dec 17 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent Suliman <evermind live.ru> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:

 I was looking at 
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169 
 and that bold sans serif proportional text for the code is 
 just... well let's say it's time to replace it.

 What would be a good code font to use for those?


 Thanks,

 Andrei


Is it's possible to colourize  content like in, out, optional 
parameters etc?
Dec 17 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent reply qznc <qznc web.de> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:

 I was looking at 
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169 
 and that bold sans serif proportional text for the code is 
 just... well let's say it's time to replace it.

 What would be a good code font to use for those?


I don't think listening to random forum opinions (Inconsolata!!1) 
is a good process. What is the intention we want to convey with 
the font choice?

a) Just use whatever is default, we dont care. 
(font-family:monospace;)

b) Use what the viewer is familiar with. That depends on the OS 
and other factors. Consolas for Windows users? A quick google 
tour did not turn up any popularity statistics for "programmer 
fonts".

c) Something beautiful. We are special. We care for every detail. 
We have a brand. Increased loading time for the website is the 
price to pay. It should also look the same on most systems.

d) Any other relatively objective process?
Dec 17 2015
next sibling parent Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 12/17/15 10:43 AM, qznc wrote:

 On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 I was looking at
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169 and that
 bold sans serif proportional text for the code is just... well let's
 say it's time to replace it.

 What would be a good code font to use for those?


 I don't think listening to random forum opinions (Inconsolata!!1) is a
 good process.


Then I guess I should stop reading here :o).


 What is the intention we want to convey with the font choice?

 a) Just use whatever is default, we dont care. (font-family:monospace;)

 b) Use what the viewer is familiar with. That depends on the OS and
 other factors. Consolas for Windows users? A quick google tour did not
 turn up any popularity statistics for "programmer fonts".

 c) Something beautiful. We are special. We care for every detail. We
 have a brand. Increased loading time for the website is the price to
 pay. It should also look the same on most systems.

 d) Any other relatively objective process?


The task is intentionally loosely defined. "Make a different nice font 
choice for the function signatures." There shouldn't be a need to 
micromanage that.


Andrei
Dec 17 2015
prev sibling parent TheGag96 <thegag96 gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 17 December 2015 at 15:43:22 UTC, qznc wrote:

 I don't think listening to random forum opinions 
 (Inconsolata!!1) is a good process.


...And I was about to say Source Code Pro and Inconsolata are my 
favorite fonts to use. >_> I think they fit the "nice" quality 
Andrei is looking for.
Dec 17 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Wyatt <wyatt.epp gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:

 I was looking at 
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169 
 and that bold sans serif proportional text for the code is 
 just... well let's say it's time to replace it.

 What would be a good code font to use for those?


I've recently become partial to Fira Mono.
https://typecast.com/preview/google/fira%20mono:400:normal
It has nice open counters, tall braces that don't overextend, and 
relatively weighty punctuation.


http://typecast.com/blog/10-fonts-for-code
There are a few others that may be worth considering here.  I 
don't like the condensed fonts so much because I prefer "O" not 
be as narrow as "0".  For zeros, dot > slash ≫ open. (I used a 
dotted version of Droid Sans Mono for a long time.)

-Wyatt
Dec 17 2015
parent tcak <1ltkrs+3wyh1ow7kzn1k sharklasers.com> writes:
On Thursday, 17 December 2015 at 16:01:01 UTC, Wyatt wrote:

 On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei 
 Alexandrescu wrote:

 I was looking at 
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169 
 and that bold sans serif proportional text for the code is 
 just... well let's say it's time to replace it.

 What would be a good code font to use for those?


 I've recently become partial to Fira Mono.
 https://typecast.com/preview/google/fira%20mono:400:normal
 It has nice open counters, tall braces that don't overextend, 
 and relatively weighty punctuation.


 http://typecast.com/blog/10-fonts-for-code
 There are a few others that may be worth considering here.  I 
 don't like the condensed fonts so much because I prefer "O" not 
 be as narrow as "0".  For zeros, dot > slash ≫ open. (I used a 
 dotted version of Droid Sans Mono for a long time.)

 -Wyatt


Fira Mono looked ugly to me. I use Input Mono for a while (Input 
Sans and
Input Serif are available as well).

http://input.fontbureau.com/preview/?size=16&language=clike&theme=solarized-dark&family=InputMono&width=300&weight=400&line-height=1.2&a=0&g=ss&i=0&l=0&zero=0&asterisk=0&braces=0&preset=default&customize=please

Not very smooth like Consolas etc, but it is very readable.
Dec 17 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent Fer22f <fer22f gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:

 I was looking at 
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169 
 and that bold sans serif proportional text for the code is 
 just... well let's say it's time to replace it.

 What would be a good code font to use for those?


 Thanks,

 Andrei


I personally use Fantasque Sans Mono, it's FOSS 
(https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans). It has good support 
for lIi1 and others. But that is just an opinion, I just find it 
beautiful.
Dec 17 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Eric Scrivner <eric.t.scrivner gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:

 I was looking at 
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169 
 and that bold sans serif proportional text for the code is 
 just... well let's say it's time to replace it.

 What would be a good code font to use for those?


 Thanks,

 Andrei


In the interest of "Show Don't Tell", here's what the homepage 
looks like using the following font string:

font-family: Consolas, "Liberation Mono", Courier, monospace

http://imgur.com/DIymzqO
Dec 17 2015
next sibling parent Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 12/17/15 4:30 PM, Eric Scrivner wrote:

 On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 I was looking at
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169 and that
 bold sans serif proportional text for the code is just... well let's
 say it's time to replace it.

 What would be a good code font to use for those?


 Thanks,

 Andrei


 In the interest of "Show Don't Tell", here's what the homepage looks
 like using the following font string:

 font-family: Consolas, "Liberation Mono", Courier, monospace

 http://imgur.com/DIymzqO


Looks good. What would the phobos function signatures look like? -- Andrei
Dec 17 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent Sebastiaan Koppe <mail skoppe.eu> writes:
On Thursday, 17 December 2015 at 21:30:21 UTC, Eric Scrivner 
wrote:

 In the interest of "Show Don't Tell", here's what the homepage 
 looks like using the following font string:

 font-family: Consolas, "Liberation Mono", Courier, monospace


Consolas + 1. Hack is too vertical to my taste.
Dec 18 2015
prev sibling parent Vladimir Panteleev <thecybershadow.lists gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 17 December 2015 at 21:30:21 UTC, Eric Scrivner 
wrote:

 In the interest of "Show Don't Tell", here's what the homepage 
 looks like using the following font string:

 font-family: Consolas, "Liberation Mono", Courier, monospace

 http://imgur.com/DIymzqO


FYI, everything after "Consolas" doesn't matter because you 
posted a screenshot, and it will not look like in the screenshot 
on non-Windows systems.
Dec 20 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent karabuta <karabutaworld gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:

 I was looking at 
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169 
 and that bold sans serif proportional text for the code is 
 just... well let's say it's time to replace it.

 What would be a good code font to use for those?


 Thanks,

 Andrei



Consolas is pretty solid IMO. It is not only good for code but 
readable even from a long distance with it's round nature. In 
fact my CLI, Atom and every IDE I use have font face set to 
Consolas. Pretty neat.
Dec 17 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 12/16/2015 1:05 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 I was looking at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169
 and that bold sans serif proportional text for the code is just... well let's
 say it's time to replace it.


I've always hated proportional fonts for code, so much that I read a book on 
Modula II in the 80's and irrationally disliked it because it used a 
proportional font for the code and looked so ugly. I never got that bad taste 
for M2 out of my mouth.
Dec 18 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent Dmitry <dmitry indiedev.ru> writes:
Some fonts examples
http://www.slant.co/topics/67/~programming-fonts
Dec 19 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent Vladimir Panteleev <thecybershadow.lists gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:

 I was looking at 
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169 
 and that bold sans serif proportional text for the code is 
 just... well let's say it's time to replace it.

 What would be a good code font to use for those?


 Thanks,

 Andrei


Let's stay away from web fonts.

Rationale:

Different text rendering algorithms will render the same text and 
font file in different ways. A font may look nice on one 
platform, but pretty bad on another.

The default fonts (i.e. monospace) are generally set to something 
that will look fine on that system. Other fonts bundled with the 
OS are also likely to look good. Using a custom font may thus 
make the text less readable on some platforms (plus the downsides 
already mentioned in this thread).

I am not completely opposed to the idea of using a web font, on 
the condition that it is tested and does not lead to a downgrade 
of usability on any of the major platforms, but I don't think the 
downsides are worth it.

Looking at what other people are doing (and have much more 
resources to think about such things):

Microsoft (MSDN): Consolas,Courier,monospace
Apple: Menlo,monospace
Android: Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,Courier,monospace
Go: Menlo,monospace
Java: monospace
Python: Consolas,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans 
Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier 
New",monospace,sans-serif

It seems that all of the above are fonts that are likely to be 
already installed on users' systems.
Dec 20 2015
prev sibling parent Adrian Matoga <epi atari8.info> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:05:27 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:

 I was looking at 
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169 
 and that bold sans serif proportional text for the code is 
 just... well let's say it's time to replace it.

 What would be a good code font to use for those?


My favourites would be: Menlo, DejaVu Sans Mono, Ubuntu Mono.
But don't embed them, just provide a safe fallback, like 
monospace.
Dec 21 2015