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# Sunday, August 07, 2005

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Consolas

I agree with Steve, Consolas is the best programming/fixed-width font I’ve used. The ClearType hinting is excellent. I managed to grab the font a while back and it’s one of the first things I install on my XP boxes.

Now the real question is will Word, Excel etc change their default font from Arial to something > Arial. Arial is optimized for printing, not on-screen reading like Tahoma and Verdana. I hate Arial. Plus Arial looks horrible on a Mac.

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Sunday, August 07, 2005 1:14:52 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Arial looks like butt everywhere. I just wished that MS released those new fonts for us Mac users (especially if they're going to be the new WIndows default).

//k
macfixer
Sunday, August 07, 2005 11:18:55 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Did you know that Consolas is *ONLY* hinted for ClearType?

So, in other words, it looks like unmitigated ass at 9-12pt without it.

Lame.

It is one of the best ClearType fonts I've seen, but I can't stomach ClearType on medium DPI displays; the RGB aliasing pixels are too visible and distracting.

It is great for those 1600x1200 15" laptop displays though. Good luck reading the rest of the non-scalable windows UI though. Avalon can't get here fast enough!
Jeff Atwood
Monday, August 08, 2005 1:25:17 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
After seeing you third this, I was motivated enough to bloggerate on it:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000356.html
Jeff Atwood
Wednesday, August 10, 2005 2:12:00 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
OK, so where can us non-(ex-) Microsofties get our hands on these fonts?
Dave Cortright
Wednesday, August 10, 2005 7:06:34 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
How can I get this font Insatlled on XP?
Gaurav Bindlish
Sunday, August 14, 2005 11:53:47 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
You need to get access to Vista some how (MSDN) and grab them from there. I'm sure they are out on the web by now.
Omar Shahine
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