I love good fonts. It’s one of the things that I enjoy most about Mac OS X \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the font rendering is *wonderful*.<\/p>\n
Lately for programming and Terminal use, I’ve used [Inconsolata][1] by [Raph Levien][2]. It’s a very clean monospaced font that renders really well at 12 points and higher, and is perfectly usable for coding at that size. It avoids the [Vera Sans Mono][3] problems with too-thin horizontal lines at common sizes.<\/p>\n
Tonight \u00e2\u20ac\u201d thanks to [Jens Alfke][4] and his [logo design][5] for the [Mercurial][6] distributed SCM system \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I’ve discovered the free fonts from [Yanone][7], specifically [Kaffeesatz][8] and [Tagesschrift][9]. Kaffeesatz in particular is a pretty slick font; hopefully I can find a use for it in something.<\/p>\n
Any other free & open font suggestions? Let me know in the comments. I can always use more great fonts.<\/p>\n
[1]: http:\/\/www.levien.com\/type\/myfonts\/inconsolata.html
\n [2]: http:\/\/www.levien.com\/
\n [3]: http:\/\/www.bitstream.com\/font_rendering\/products\/dev_fonts\/vera.html
\n [4]: http:\/\/mooseyard.com\/Jens\/
\n [5]: http:\/\/mooseyard.com\/Jens\/2008\/02\/make-mine-mercurial\/
\n [6]: http:\/\/www.selenic.com\/mercurial\/
\n [7]: http:\/\/www.yanone.de\/
\n [8]: http:\/\/www.yanone.de\/typedesign\/kaffeesatz\/
\n [9]: http:\/\/www.yanone.de\/typedesign\/tagesschrift\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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