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Best Font for Ultraedit.

Postby rfdes » Wed Oct 06, 2004 6:20 am

Hi..
I have always been a dissatisfied with the font weights with Ultraedit.
I do like the Andale Mono font for programming, but the 'regular' weighting is to thin for me, while the 'bold' is too heavy. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks..

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Re: Best Font for Ultraedit.

Postby jorgencederberg » Wed Oct 06, 2004 6:45 am

Guess you are going to get a gazillion suggetions.

I myself use plain old Courier New, normal, size 10. It is very easy to read.

But really it is a matter of personal choice.

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Re: Best Font for Ultraedit.

Postby mjax » Wed Oct 06, 2004 9:50 am

I use Lucida Console regular 10pt. On my LCD screens, this is the best font for me.
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Re: Best Font for Ultraedit.

Postby MrBillG » Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:45 am

Try a free font called Anonymous at Mark Simonson Studio
http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymous.html

You might want to try to download the new Nexus font at
http://www.nexit.com/dload/nexus.fon

I don't like this font but you might.
Download the freeware bitmap font called XTerm at
http://www.nexit.com/dload/xterm.zip

I don't know who said it but this could go on forever!

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Re: Best Font for Ultraedit.

Postby MrBillG » Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:55 am

This is more for fun than any thing else.

Years ago on the Mac there was a font called Hell's Programmer Font

They made a version for the PC, I want to say it was for Windows 3.1 (16 bit version).

If nothing else you got to love the name.
Do a Google search and you'll find Hell's Programmer Font!
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Re: Best Font for Ultraedit.

Postby toddm » Thu Oct 07, 2004 8:33 am

I use Courier New size 9. I used to use 10, but I wanted to fit a little more on the screen at a time. 1280x1024 screen resolution.
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Re: Best Font for Ultraedit.

Postby jarrodb » Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:55 pm

Andale Mono is my font of choice!
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Re: Best Font for Ultraedit.

Postby alko » Wed Nov 03, 2004 5:45 pm

I think the best truetype font it the HVEdit package (http://www.procon.com.au/HVEdit.htm). It is far clearer than any of the others and also comes in three different widths.
For small point sizes the high visibility HVRaster font is better still (http://www.procon.com.au/HVRaster.htm).
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Re: Best Font for Ultraedit.

Postby Chris » Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:12 pm

I've recently started using a font called Terminus. The exact font name (including weight and size info) is:

"terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-1"

You can find more information here, and it's the first in the list.

The font name once installed in Windows XP is: ter-112n
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Re: Best Font for Ultraedit.

Postby Bink_Farmer » Wed Feb 16, 2005 8:38 pm

I am suprized that ProFontWindows hasn't been mentioned.

Well, it probably has been mentioned but I missed it...

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Re: Best Font for Ultraedit.

Postby Chris » Wed Feb 16, 2005 8:51 pm

Bink_Farmer wrote:I am suprized that ProFontWindows hasn't been mentioned.

I was using ProFont until just recently, more specifically the "»tweaked«" version.

A very good programming font, but I like terminus slightly better.
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Re: Best Font for Ultraedit.

Postby SamHasler » Thu Feb 17, 2005 8:07 pm

I found this blog post with many suggestions in the comments. Many of which are listed with view samples at the excellent http://www.lowing.org/fonts/ site suggested by Chris.

The font I am currently using which was suggested in the blog comments but isn't on lowing.org is Triskweline.

Also, if you don't mind paying for your fonts, there are are several suggestions in that blogs comments.
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Re: Best Font for Ultraedit.

Postby Manni » Fri Feb 18, 2005 5:25 am

I don't know. I tried every recommendation mentioned here and I always switched back to Andale Mono. If you haven't already got it on your system, you can download it here.


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Re: Best Font for Ultraedit.

Postby ultra » Sat Feb 19, 2005 10:32 am

Hands down the best monospace font available IMHO is Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. You can find the Bitstream Vera Sans fonts at
http://www.gnome.org/fonts/
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Re: Best Font for Ultraedit.

Postby zridling » Sun Feb 20, 2005 5:10 am

Monospace? Monospace? We don't need no stinkin' Monospace!

For writing, not coding, I use Frutiger Next LT, a highly readable screen font, and looks just as good when printed.
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