25 blog posts tagged coding fonts
The Xerox Alto mono-spaced font rises again
Computing history tells us of a mythical place where many of the innovations we take for granted today were either invented or refined to a working level at a single location known as the Xerox’s Palo-Alto Research Center (PARC).
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, albeit 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:
Humane theme for TextMate and Xcode
My Humane theme for Visual Studio is getting a fair bit of traffic today courtesy of Scott Hanselman. Given I have been messing with Mac development lately I thought it was worth porting to TextMate and Xcode 3.
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 font family courtesy of Google & Ascender
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.
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!)
Older pixel fonts back online
Some of my older bitmap “pixel” font files are now available again, they are:
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
A newer version of Envy Code R is available.
The last few days have been frantic ones putting the final touches to the next release of the Envy Code R typeface as I bring it closer to my idea of the perfect coding font.
Envy Code R preview #6 forthcoming
Envy Code R has been updated since this post.
I have been experimenting with Envy Code R over the last few months – everything from creating a bold version to delta hinting with Visual TrueType with mixed results.
Italic syntax highlighting in Visual Studio 2005
I came across a posting by Thomas Restrepo about a theme for Vim he likes called Wombat and how it wouldn’t be worth porting to Visual Studio as it doesn’t support italic syntax highlighting – as we all know.
Red Hat releases Liberation fonts
Linux vendor Red Hat have released a font family named Liberation under a GPL license.
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
Envy Code R has been updated since this post.
Here is the Envy Code R programming font I’ve been working on as it currently stands:
Envy Code R work continues
Envy Code R has been updated since this post.
I’ve been back less than 36 hours but have managed to spend a little more time working on Envy Code R.
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.
InconsolataDG – Slashed zero’s
Inconsolata now incorporates slashed zero’s rendering my version redundant. It has therefore been removed.
I’ve been messing about with FontForge and the Inconsolata font and come up with my own variant – InconsolataDG.
Inconsolata OpenType programming font
My quest for something to replace Envy Code B on my ClearType-enabled systems continues.
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.
Envy Code A & Code B programming fonts updated
This month has seen my Envy Code A and Envy Code B fonts stumbled upon some 4,000 times thanks to a Digg to Keith Deven’s programming fonts page that links here.
I’ve taken this opportunity to update the fonts – Envy Code B had a couple of issues with mis-positioned characters in the 9pt version especially with “il#” characters in the bold one. Fixed.