Perfect programming-font for the IDE

[WizardOz]

Hi!

Just wanted to show what I would declare as the perfect font for the b4a-ide.
I use this font every day, in all my projects, it makes the code easy to read.
The name of the font is "ProFont" and is free. ProFont began life as a better version of Monaco 9 which is especially good for programmers. It was created circa 1987 by Andrew Welch.

This version (it got the new chars, like the Euro) has been adjustet to work with the modern windows. 7 and 9 sizes also works great.

The font is attached (in the original zip), no virus found(Checked with Nod32).

 

[Erel]

Thank you for sharing. Looks like a nice font.

 

[Roger Garstang]

I've used Pro Font and a couple others before in other IDEs...for some reason I always go back to the Vista/Win7 Console font or something though. This one is labeled Tweaked...do you know what is "tweaked" in it?

 

[Roger Garstang]

Crisp, Dina, ProggyClean, and Sheldon are some other good ones. I found my font of this and they have the exact same version numbers, dates, etc...but mine is 50KB and this one is 56KB. I wonder what the extra 6KB is with no version change?

Dina and Crisp are my Favs of the above, just because they look clearer and the % and Slash Zeros are better.

 

[WizardOz]

Crisp, Dina, ProggyClean, and Sheldon are some other good ones. I found my font of this and they have the exact same version numbers, dates, etc...but mine is 50KB and this one is 56KB. I wonder what the extra 6KB is with no version change?

The readme states:
Version 2 "tweaked"
This is ProFont Windows TTF, Version 2 "tweaked".
Based on v2.
Modifications include:
- A Euro character
- Missing characters from the Latin 1 code page
- Full support for CodePage 850. These are mostly the famous
block/box characters you know from DOS. Very useful if you use
Mightnight Commander through PuTTY.
- Fixed metrics so that point size of 9 works correctly. Until now
you had to select 7 to obtain the native point size of 9.
- Added some quick&dirty hinting for point size of 9. Most characters
now match closely the look of the bitmap version.
Don't expect it to look good on anything else than Windows...

 

[BarrySumpter]

Courier new - 12 - bold

 

[rbsoft]

Courier new - 12 - bold

Yep!

Rolf

 

[Roger Garstang]

Courier new - 12 - bold

You rebel. Living on the edge? hehehe
Switched mine to Crisp 12pt Regular after all this. For some reason the font dialog in B4A isn't seeing Dina

This has a pretty good sample of them: Proggy Programming Fonts

 

[BarrySumpter]

LOL
I did chase those down but too many in the generic family to chose from.
Too hard chasing all those different fonts down.
Installing and testing and reverting.
Need a direct hyperlink.

Otherwise I suggest w-ing-b-ats.