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Confusing fonts!
Just a warning to people after my last half hour of "why doesn't this work":
If you use the Microsoft font "Consolas" for your terminals, you may find that the characters "l" and "1" look almost identical.........
I had a look at some of the other monospaced fonts I have on this system. They all fall into either "those characters look the same" or "much less readable". Consolas is a good font, except for that confusion!
So, I post this to,
If you use the Microsoft font "Consolas" for your terminals, you may find that the characters "l" and "1" look almost identical.........
I had a look at some of the other monospaced fonts I have on this system. They all fall into either "those characters look the same" or "much less readable". Consolas is a good font, except for that confusion!
So, I post this to,
- Vent my frustration
- Warn others
- Ask if anybody has a favourite terminal font, and what it is?
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I think Lucida has a monospaced font, and there are some custom console fonts from programs like TerraTerm and whatnot... vt100 and such.
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(I have been avoiding learning font design for about 20 years. I do not have time for font creation geekery.)
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Thanks for the link :)
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I think I like it.
Thank you!
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None of them suffer from the 0/O 1/l problems.
This page lists these and a few more.
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So I'm trying out Ubuntu Mono, which has roughly the same proportions[1] as Consolas but has distinct 1 and l ;-)
[1] I'm sure there must be a typographical term for that...
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here's another decent font for these purposes. Although I'm still using Ubuntu Mono as this one is a bit wide for me.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sourcecodepro.adobe/