Comments on: Envy Code R programming font – preview available for download

By: flying sheep

flying sheep — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:16:58 +0000

i like the old braces better, too.
and for the asterisk thingy:
*: asterisk
∗: asterisk operator (this is what you want)
⁎: low asterisk
⁑: two verically aligned asterisks
⁂: asterism
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterisk#Encodings)
the * is supposed to be where it is ;)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:18:05 +0000

Thank you for this brilliant font; I’ve been stuck with Courier New for quite some time.

My only issue is the braces — I prefer the ones in your earlier preview, personally.

By: Mihai

Mihai — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:06:15 +0000

It’s a very nice font, unfortunatelly it lacks ISO8859-2 accents (like ? ? ? î â).

By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:25:40 +0000

You couldn't increase the spacing between the lines of the m without making the letter wider and if you do that then every single other letter would also be wider - that is one of the compromises you have to make with a monospaced font.

At the moment there is no released bold version so when you select bold Windows is attempting to create one on the fly, with bad results.

I have a bold version here which is a little better but it needs a bit of a tidy-up.

[)amien

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:49:59 +0000

Nice font; however, I don’t care for the ‘m’. The lines are really close, and bolding it makes it a blob.

By: longs

longs — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:29:20 +0000

looks so cool,thanks

By: Dan Farina

Dan Farina — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 04:08:37 +0000

It’s pretty funky on Eclipse under GNU/Linux as well…lots of characters running over one another at size 10. It does seem to not have this problem at size 11, however…

By: Tony Perrie

Tony Perrie — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 03:38:55 +0000

I just tried in on TextMate on my Powerbook and it was fairly unreadable.

By: Mel Boyce

Mel Boyce — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 22:29:33 +0000

I am now using this typeface on Mac OS X 10.4 with Textmate. I like the font although there are some very odd rendering peculiarities when the font-size is 10, 12, or 13 points (I suspect Textmate is the culprit as there are no rendering issues within the font dialog).
Excellent font; thanks for the effort.

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:58:25 +0000

java probably does have its own renderer. I like to be able to read my code, and everyone seems to product 8+10pt bitmap programmer fonts. Thats way too much eyestrain to me when staring at it all day long.

I think consolas looks like a dog, and most people who gush over it are microsoft users who have only ever used courier new. (andale mono is my backup to monaco so I wont bash it too much;)

good luck with the font work

By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:02:34 +0000

It would appear jEdit is not using Windows to render it's text - I assume it is either using a feature of Java or some library for rendering the text.

This gives us so far Windows, Mac, FreeType and jEdit/Java renderers all of which can operate in a variety of modes!

I'll see what I can do - I think the hints will solve the height issues and I want to address the lower-case X anyway.

It may well be that Code R stays as optimized for Windows/10pt and the next font I do tries to be an all-purpose all-systems alternative to the likes of Monaco/Consolas/Andale Mono.

[)amien

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:32:32 +0000

I was running it at 18pt (which comes out at the same size as monaco 16pt).

here is a side by side of monaco 16pt with envy code r 18pt with some nice roguelike code hacking going in with SAP deployment code in the background.

By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 03:42:45 +0000

Yes, at some point sizes there are height issues between the characters - I'm trying to find out why and the solution may well be hinting which I'm currently getting to grips with.

What size were you using it at?

[)amien

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 03:26:37 +0000

Running it as a test in jEdit,

'h' +'d' arch is not as high as other letters and looks a bit disconcerting. I also dont like the lowercase 'x'. subpixel rendering makes it look a bit off. I think some more differentiation of lowercase L and number 1

Im also not sure I like that lowercase is nearly same height as uppercase.

For the moment I'll stick to monaco and try this again later.

By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:09:21 +0000

For now Code R will stick to Code B and have the ‘*’ but if you send me an email to damieng@gmail.com I’ll send you an individual version with the * there ;-)

[)amien