Hi. On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 12:33:42 -0400 Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflyby...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One more then I hear my bird feeders calling. Couple days ago I was > trying to find a pirate friendly font via an "apt-cache search" > inquiry. No pirates (that weren't part of a *2GB* package, yarrrrr!), > but stumbled on a font called "Anonymous Pro" that is billed as a > "fixed width sans serif font designed for coders". > > Further description is: "Anonymous Pro (2009) is a family of four > fixed-width fonts designed especially with coding in mind. Characters > that could be mistaken for one another (O, 0, I, l, 1, etc.) have > distinct shapes to make them easier to tell apart in the context of > source code." > > Since I had just like the day before installed "devscripts", it > sounded like a potential win worth pursuing. It looks very similar to > Monospace, but my brain still keeps actively noticing that there is > definitely a user-friendly difference.. A small nitpick. Very small. There's no font called "Monospace", it's an alias to some other font. Which, I presume, actually called DejaVu Sans Mono. A quick check with 'fc-match Monospace' should clear all possible uncertainties. > Sharing because it might just help someone else who spends a lot of > time using terminals. As I write that, for some reason it comes to > mind that it may be standard with large installs. If not, the package > name again is ttf-anonymous-pro. I'm not trying to argue about tastes here, but if asked about the best *terminal* font - I always suggest Terminus (which is xfonts-terminus). While it lacks CJK glyphs and this modern Unicode emoji jumbo - it gets the job done for me since '06. Reco
