fonts

fonts

Revisiting Programming Fonts

I’ve experimented with programming fonts and IDE color schemes plenty in the past. But now that I’ve given in to the inevitability of ClearType on large LCDs, I’ve basically settled on Consolas. It’s hard to beat Consolas. It’s darn close to the ultimate monospace programming

font rendering

Font Rendering: Respecting The Pixel Grid

I’ve finally determined What’s Wrong With Apple’s Font Rendering. As it turns out, there actually wasn’t anything wrong with Apple’s font rendering, per se. Apple simply chose a different font rendering philosophy, as Joel Spolsky explains: Apple generally believes that the goal of the algorithm

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Comic Sans, the Font Of The Gods

You may be familiar with the font Comic Sans MS: Over the last 5 years, my wife and I noticed that this annoying font is inordinately popular “in the wild” – we’ve seen it in the strangest places. Enough so that it has become a running joke whenever we see