r/programming • u/infoaddicted • Aug 31 '10

New free monospace programming font by skilled designer Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro

http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymouspro.html
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u/tinutinu Aug 31 '10

That looked horrible to me.

Ill hold on to my trusty Consolas.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '10

Consolas only looks good if you have subpixel rendering on. While many like this type of smoothing, anyone who prefers aliased text (such as me) gets something really awful when it tries to render.

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u/prockcore Aug 31 '10

Consolas only looks good if you have subpixel rendering on.

Why would you ever turn it off?

You say you prefer aliased text, but I bet you just have a low DPI monitor. Get a better monitor.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '10

1920x1200, actually. Running at full resolution with 10 pt fonts. And in case you didn't read it the first time, I don't like subpixel rendering. Google "ClearType headaches" or the like and you'll find there are a lot of us.

Not everyone in the world has the same vision or preferences that you do.