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Re: Emacs fonts for coding



On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 09:22:22AM -0700, s. keeling wrote:
> Incoming from Antonio Rodriguez:
> > I would like to know what font are people using for coding. I have
> > tried a bunch of different ones, and it always seems to have some bad
> > corner. This last one I am using makes it difficult to distinguish
> > braces "{" from parentheses "(". Bad news for coding.
> 
> -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-10-100-75-75-m-60-iso8859-1
> 
> It's clean, simple looking, well spaced, and looks great in all
> character based apps (mutt, slrn, vi(m), emacs, irssi, xterm, rxvt).
> I use it light foreground on dark background:
> 
> Emacs*foreground:   wheat
> Emacs*background:   black
> Emacs*cursorColor:  green
> Emacs.geometry:     104x46-92+36
> Emacs*font:         -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-10-100-75-75-m-60-iso8859-1

Great! Looks very good. I made some minor adjustments:

Emacs.geometry:  85x35+20+20
Emacs*font: -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-17-120-100-100-m-100-iso8859-1



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