Adobe Releases New Openly Licensed Coding Font

tqft writes "From the sourceforge page: 'Source Sans is a set of monospaced OpenType fonts that have been designed to work well coding environments. This family of fonts is a complementary design to the Source Sans family.' License: Open Font License 1.1 (OFL 1.1) (both FSF and DFSG free). Hope to see it Debian (& other) repositories soon." The example text doesn't really look too much better than Inconsolata. But, hey, who can complain about more liberally licensed fonts?

Call me a dinosaur...

[rnturn]

... but is this really better than good ol' Courier?

Personally, I find san-serif fonts a bit of a strain to read for long periods of time. For a while Lucida typewriter was fine but I keep switching back to Courier.

Re:Call me a dinosaur...

[American AC in Paris]

8ut there are lots of reasons to switch away from Courier. 0ne obvious reason is that l made four easy-to-over1ook typos in this post alone.

Re:Call me a dinosaur...

[Anonymous Coward]

There's only three typos in your post and believe me they're very easy to see on a system where fonts are displayed properly instead of being hammered into sub-pixels.

Nope, four:
8ut - 8 not B
0ne - 0 not O
that l made - lower case L not I
easy-to-over1ook - 1 not l

not so easy to see I guess.

Re:monospaced fonts are yucky

[ichthus]

Am I the only person who thinks code looks better and is more readable with proportional font spacing?

Probably. If you did much coding where you aligned things horizontally, like with a list of #define's in C, you'd probably rethink your assertion.

Re:Call me a dinosaur...

[flimflammer]

Wow, I don't think you could have made his point any better right there.