{"id":6877,"date":"2007-02-14T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T23:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/2007\/02\/14\/mmmm-fonts\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T12:44:36","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T02:44:36","slug":"mmmm-fonts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/2007\/02\/14\/mmmm-fonts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mmmm, fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post isn&#8217;t going to make much sense to a lot of you .. But when you spend most of your day staring at source code, having a really nice font can make a big difference. It needs to be readable, to save your eyes, it needs to have unambiguous characters, 1 vs l vs | etc., and it needs to look <em>nice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Today I decided I needed a new font, and in the process stumbled across the very cool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowing.org\/fonts\/\">Monospace\/Fixed Width Programmer&#8217;s Fonts<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>I quite like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gringod.com\/wp-upload\/MONACO.TTF\">Monaco<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ms-studio.com\/FontSales\/anonymous.html\">Anonymous<\/a> is nice too. They&#8217;re monospace, but they don&#8217;t look quite as old skool as your usual monospace font.<\/p>\n<p>Linux types just need to download the .ttf files and drop them in ~\/.fonts.<\/p>\n<p>Ok back to work now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post isn&#8217;t going to make much sense to a lot of you .. But when you spend most of your day staring at source code, having a really nice font can make a big difference. It needs to be readable, to save your eyes, it needs to have unambiguous characters, 1 vs l vs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[17,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}