Slightly OT:Monospaced Fonts

s_reynisson · Post by **s_reynisson** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 7:49 pm

merlsub, it looks fine, but, I can only choose bold and bold italic...

(I'm currently trying to port Luxi mono from Linux to Windows, that's converting Type1 font to TTF, so far no luck, if anyone here has it as a TTF pls PM me so I can take a look, Luxi mono is now my prime suspect as monospace in Linux

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SteveH · Post by **SteveH** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:14 am

You can get a font called Luxi Mono as a TTF via http://oooconv.free.fr/fontooo/index_en.html, following the link to http://oooconv.free.fr/fontooo/packs/ and downloading the AllTrueTypeFonts.zip package.

Hope it's the one you are after.

Cheers,

Steve

s_reynisson · Post by **s_reynisson** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:41 am

Thx for the pointer SteveH. This font looks like the one I converted from Type1 to TTF (with mo's help). It looks thin and jagged in under size 14 or so where as the Luxi Mono in Fedora Core 3 is at it's very best in those sizes. On the bright side, it looks like I've finally narrowed my search down to Luxi. If you'd like to see it in Fedora Core 3, PM your email and I'll send you screenshots.

charles · Post by **charles** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 5:41 pm

Have you ever tried Raize ?
It's free. The only problem is that it (unlike Courier New, but like Courier) cannot be anti-aliased regardless of (Win) OS settings ...
http://www.raize.com/DevTools/Tools/RzFont.asp

jumpfroggy · Post by **jumpfroggy** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:25 pm

I'd been looking, a couple of different times, and I'm glad to say I'm using the Proggy fonts... best one I've seen so far.

Wouldn't it make sense though to have a feature where you could use any font as a monospace font? Since it's monospaced you wouldn't have to worry about kerning and all that, simply place the same letters out on a grid... Am I oversimplifying? Many times I've wished that I could just use arial or tahoma as a monospace, since the characters are pretty readable.

bveldkamp · Post by **bveldkamp** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:56 am

s_reynisson wrote:It looks thin and jagged in under size 14 or so where as the Luxi Mono in Fedora Core 3 is at it's very best in those sizes.

If you have XP, you can try different settings for antialiasing (Control Panel | Display | Appearance | Effects), "Cleartype" looks less jagged, but also a bit fuzzy, making it hard to look at text for longer periods.

s_reynisson · Post by **s_reynisson** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:56 am

Yes, I'm aware of that Cleartype/Laptop thingy, but the diffrence was so much that there was no point in testing is. The imported font was just way off.

tcebob · Post by **tcebob** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 5:43 pm

I have had reasonable luck with Monospace821 BT, which seems pretty prevalent. However, I have my setup to Fixedsys (1024x768). Works fine.

tcebob

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