19 blog posts tagged Envy Code
My top 5 free VS 2010 extension picks
The Visual Studio Gallery is already home to 533 tools, controls and templates for VS 2010 and this number is sure to grow once VS 2010 hits RTM and people get to grips with the extendable new editor.
Font hinting and instructing: a primer
Taking my bitmap font Envy Code B into the vector TrueType Envy Code R was a long process, the most difficult being hinting.
From the vaults of Twitter
I don’t normally republish my Tweets but are my highlights.
Envy Code R preview #7 (v0.7)
Envy Code R preview 7.2 is released with many glyphs redrawn and a full complement of box-drawing characters.
May 2008 checkpoint
I am now settled into my new, though temporary, apartment here in Vancouver, BC working for Microsoft!
More screen-shots of Envy Code R preview #7
Work on my Envy Code R programming font has resumed and I’ve spent hours playing with the hinting process to ensure it looks good at sizes above and below 10 point:
Getting the hint (Where is Envy Code R?)
I know, I said there would be a good chance that the next version of Envy Code R would be out this weekend but the annoying sizing, thickness and cropping issues that came up at some sizes above and below the optimum 10 point were really annoying me.
Envy Code R coding font v0.7 preview
The next version of my Envy Code R font especially designed for programming (monospaced, easily distinguishable characters) is nearing completion and represents a very response-driven update to feedback, specifically:
Droid Sans Mono great coding font
Google’s Android project, an open platform for mobile devices, has been hitting the news a lot in the last couple of days with it’s open APIs, Java-based development platform and optimized virtual machine which includes the lovely set of typefaces from Ascender known as the Droid family.
Recent activities and inactivities
It has been a crazy couple of months between moving home, spending a week in Seattle and a couple of days in Holland for my real day job (the source of income!)
Envy Code R Jeff Atwood scheme
Jeff “Coding Horror” Atwood published a nice round-up of coding fonts he’s been looking at lately in Visual Studio with his own color scheme.
Envy Code R preview #6 released with Visual Studio italics
Release of Envy Code R preview 6 with 461 glyphs, a bold and italic variant, and a special Visual Studio build that marks the italic font as bold to work around VS's missing italic syntax highlighting.
Envy Code R preview #6 forthcoming
Side-by-side comparison of preview 5 and the redrawn preview 6 of Envy Code R, addressing the awkward shapes that emerged at larger sizes after the 10pt-ClearType-optimised curves.
Programming fonts you might not have tried
If you’re tired of the ugly-as-sin Courier New and have tried the popular well-known scalable TrueType/OpenType mono-spaced/fixed-width replacements:
Envy Code R programming font: preview available for download
Preview release of Envy Code R, a scalable ClearType-friendly programming font designed to match Envy Code B at 10pt, with notes on the missing characters and known rendering issues.
Envy Code R work continues
Progress notes on Envy Code R — curve adjustments for hnruc, the Windows Latin 1252 character set nearing completion, and the remaining ClearType spacing issues to solve before a pre-Christmas release.
Preview of Envy Code R programming font
My last post got me thinking, if I’m so happy with Envy Code B bar it’s ability to scale or take advantage of ClearType then there is only one real option. I reached for the pixelated TrueType conversion of Envy Code B and five hours later had a rough version of my **first ever vector font**, Envy Code R.
Comparing programming fonts
The blogging about favorite programming fonts doesn’t seem to want to truly die down so here’s how I rate the most popular fonts for programming in descending order with my own Envy Code B which I use all the time, but now desperately needs the ClearType treatment.
Envy Code B font available in TrueType format
It’s been a long time coming but finally, a TrueType conversion of my programming font Envy Code B.