Re: ACS font (was: Way to programmatically determine whether 32-bit or 64-bit Client Access is installed?)

Inconsolata is nice, but I've moved on. There's plenty of good monospaced
fonts out there. Some of my favorites:

- http://input.fontbureau.com/ (customizable, free for private use)
- https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro (current favorite console
font)
- http://sourcefoundry.org/hack (current favorite editor font)
- https://www.google.com/get/noto



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From: John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: ACS font (was: Way to programmatically determine whether
32-bit or 64-bit Client Access is installed?)
Date: Thu, Aug 3, 2017 4:26 PM

On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 4:28 PM, <MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> It's been a while, but this looks like it should work for you:
>> [1]http://www.fonts101.com/fonts/view/Uncategorized/51239/Monaco.aspx
>
> Crud. Need admin access to install fonts. Maybe next time I need to
apply
> a service pack.

Dan, why the fascination with Monaco? Personally, I think it's not as
good as Inconsolata. Of course this is a highly subjective issue, but
unless you find something *much* better than what you have, it's not
worth the trouble. Monaco is *at best* roughly as good as Inconsolata.

In the thread that I tried to start, I mentioned that Consolas is no
good with ACS because ACS seems not to have any antialiasing at all.
Well, Jeff Atwood (famous programmer and cofounder of Stack Overflow)
specifically mentions Inconsolata as a good choice for when you don't
have ClearType (Microsoft's current antialiasing scheme) enabled,
because Consolas is crap without it. He also doesn't rate Monaco very
highly:

<[2]https://blog.codinghorror.com/revisiting-programming-fonts/>

I will say this about Monaco: It's quite distinctive, with a very
strong personality. If you are very drawn to Monaco, and get used to
it, then I guess it shouldn't be too surprising that everything else
pales in comparison. I've tried it, and I could not acquire that
taste. Like Atwood, I find Monaco kind of a mess. I especially don't
like the lowercase ell, either on its own or next to other letters. In
some point sizes, the lowercase i is also a sore thumb.

John Y.
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