On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 1:38 PM Sam_L <lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Also use Lucida Console in other editors.
I guess I'll throw in mine:
I still like IBM3270 the best for 5250 sessions. It seems IBM-y and
"right" somehow, but that may just be because it's what I used first
for this purpose, and I got used to it. I do really like it, though.
For other places where I want a monospaced font, I like the following:
- Consolas: visually attractive and legible but the small x-height
makes the font seem small for a given point size.
- Cousine: very clean and clear, amazingly good replacement for
Courier New (same "visual size"), has dotted zero and distinct capital
eye, lowercase ell, and one.
For my primary coding in other editors (particularly VS Code), I
actually prefer proportional fonts. I realize these would not work for
5250 sessions:
- Input Sans (with my own tweaks): this is what I've settled on as my
"daily driver"; looks a little clunky but very readable, only "mildly"
proportional.
- Verdana: still my favorite combination of attractiveness and
legibility, code looks *great* in this font, but its extreme
proportionality makes for crazy line lengths (very noticeable in long
comment blocks), and it doesn't have code-friendly zero, etc., so as
much as I love this one, I avoid it for coding.
Worth special note:
- Input Mono: related to Input Sans, but obviously expressly monospaced.
- Recursive: very new font which looks interesting, but as far as I
can tell, it is not well hinted, so it doesn't look as clean and sharp
at smallish sizes (i.e. sizes one typically uses for writing text or
code) as I think that it could.
These are variable fonts, meaning they have configurable attributes.
You can tune them to your liking. More and more fonts are like this.
It's fun to check them out and play with them, even if you don't plan
on using them yourself.
John Y.
midrange.com
