Re: Coder friendly font Anonymous Pro (ttf-anonymous-pro)
Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> writes:
> One more then I hear my bird feeders calling. Couple days ago I was
> trying to find a pirate friendly font via an "apt-cache search"
> inquiry. No pirates (that weren't part of a *2GB* package, yarrrrr!),
> but stumbled on a font called "Anonymous Pro" that is billed as a
> "fixed width sans serif font designed for coders".
>
> Further description is: "Anonymous Pro (2009) is a family of four
> fixed-width fonts designed especially with coding in mind. Characters
> that could be mistaken for one another (O, 0, I, l, 1, etc.) have
> distinct shapes to make them easier to tell apart in the context of
> source code."
>
> Since I had just like the day before installed "devscripts", it
> sounded like a potential win worth pursuing. It looks very similar to
> Monospace, but my brain still keeps actively noticing that there is
> definitely a user-friendly difference..
>
> Sharing because it might just help someone else who spends a lot of
> time using terminals. As I write that, for some reason it comes to
> mind that it may be standard with large installs. If not, the package
> name again is ttf-anonymous-pro.
Looks interesting -- I've been using Terminus for quite a while -- it's
another fixed-width programmer-friendly font, Comparing it with
Anonymous Pro, it seems a bit narrows and doesn't seem to have as much
variation in apparent weight (Anonymous Pro's W is so much darker than
the other characters on a line I'm looking at that it looks like it's in
Bold!).
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