Re: ACS font (was: Way to programmatically ...)

"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 08/05/2017
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Re: Re: ACS font (was: Way to programmatically ...)

On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 4:29 PM, <MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I do like the look of Consolas or Inconsolata, but they don't fill the
screen in ACS--at least not for me. The characters are too short and I

end

up with dead space (large blank areas) at the top and bottom of the
screen.

This is part of the reason I choose to have the font size fixed and
the window adjust automatically to fit the font.

That fills the window, but I think all the fonts look lousy that way.

If I could find a Consolas derivative with taller characters, I
would switch in a heartbeat.

Kevin Adler mentioned a font that is highly customizable:

<http://input.fontbureau.com/>

It's not derived from or even particularly influenced by Consolas, but
it's designed to be legible, and you can adjust the line spacing in
the font itself, so if you have extra room on the top and bottom of
your screen, you can experiment with making the lines further apart.
You can also customize some of the more contentious characters, such
as the lowercase ell.

I've looked at the font. I was immediately turned off by no slashes or
differentiation of any kind between 0 (zero) and O (capital Oh). Perhaps
customizing characters might fix that--I never went that far looking at
it.

Michael Quigley
Computer Services
The Way International
www.TheWay.org