[gentoo-user] [OT] recommend clean monospaced condensed TTF

[gentoo-user] [OT] recommend clean monospaced condensed TTF

[Andrew Gaydenko]

Please, recommend me clean free monospaced _condensed_ TTF. 

The thing is, I was using the font as, for example, is shown here: 
http://gaydenko.com/qloud/screenshots/shot01.png
Few years ago I have "condensed" some font (don't remember which) with pedit (fonforge
now). Recently I have switch from CRT to LCD monitor. As a result, bolded variant
looks awful. Apparently, simple horizontal "condensing" of TTF isn't right way, instead
font must be "native".
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] recommend clean monospaced condensed TTF

[Kent Fredric]

On 1/17/07, Andrew Gaydenko <a@gaydenko.com> wrote:
> Please, recommend me clean free monospaced _condensed_ TTF.
>
> The thing is, I was using the font as, for example, is shown here:
> http://gaydenko.com/qloud/screenshots/shot01.png
> Few years ago I have "condensed" some font (don't remember which) with pedit (fonforge
> now). Recently I have switch from CRT to LCD monitor. As a result, bolded variant
> looks awful. Apparently, simple horizontal "condensing" of TTF isn't right way, instead
> font must be "native".

You'll find on that juicy new LCD you can tollerate much smaller fonts :)

Ive developed  a preference for Bitstream Vera Sans ( 7 ) for everything, except
fixedwidth: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono (8)
Window: 20th Century Font ( 7  : looks good bold and small, tho unf i
dont know where i got it )
Taskbar: Bitstream Vera sans ( 6 , yes.. 6 .. thats 6 pixels... count them ;) )

*adds screenshot whoredom*

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/digitaljackal/4-1.jpg


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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] recommend clean monospaced condensed TTF

[Kent Fredric]

On 1/17/07, Kent Fredric <kentfredric@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/digitaljackal/4-1.jpg

Just giving links to where i scored the awesome WP from:
  http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/31379355/
  http://aeiko.net/desktopography/


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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] recommend clean monospaced condensed TTF

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 17 January 2007 08:28, Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
> Please, recommend me clean free monospaced _condensed_ TTF.
>
> The thing is, I was using the font as, for example, is shown here:
> http://gaydenko.com/qloud/screenshots/shot01.png
> Few years ago I have "condensed" some font (don't remember which)
> with pedit (fonforge now). Recently I have switch from CRT to LCD
> monitor. As a result, bolded variant looks awful. Apparently, simple
> horizontal "condensing" of TTF isn't right way, instead font must be
> "native".

I prefer Bitstream Vera Mono for this (or DejaVu which is a fork of the 
same font). It looks good at small sizes down to 7 and I can easily 
tell the difference between i,I,1,l and 0,O. It has an actual bold font 
variant so there's none of that double-print-one-pixel to the right 
nonsense which looks awful.

Andale is also not too bad, emerge corefonts to get it. It's not my 
first choice as the glyphs are shorter than Vera with big gaps between 
lines of text which looks a little odd and i and 1 are easily confused. 
Vera Sans appears more in proportion to my eye

alan
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] recommend clean monospaced condensed TTF

[Matthias Bethke]

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Hi Alan,
on Wednesday, 2007-01-17 at 11:11:29, you wrote:
> I prefer Bitstream Vera Mono for this (or DejaVu which is a fork of the 
> same font). It looks good at small sizes down to 7 and I can easily 
> tell the difference between i,I,1,l and 0,O. It has an actual bold font 
> variant so there's none of that double-print-one-pixel to the right 
> nonsense which looks awful.

Agree, that's two very important features. There is a pretty good
overview of some monospace fonts, most with screenshots:
http://www.lowing.org/fonts/

cheers,
	Matthias
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