Monday, October 24, 2011

Re: Ubuntu Mono font

Used this font for about two weeks in terminal but couldn't get used
to, sorry=).

Got back to Liberation Mono.

2011/10/11 Jingguo Yao <yaojingguo@gmail.com>:
> The fonts are beautiful. I have tried the fonts in terminal vim
> and gvim. Both work for me.
> On Oct 10, 5:07 am, "George V. Reilly" <geo...@reilly.org> wrote:
>> [Reflowed as a bottom post to forestall whining from the usual suspects]
>>
>> 2011/10/9 Александр Куринный <kurin...@gmail.com>
>>
>> > On 9 October 2011 00:12, George V. Reilly <geo...@reilly.org> wrote:
>> > > Since monospaced fonts are a perennial topic of discussion here, I'll
>> > > mention the new Ubuntu Mono font, which can be downloaded from
>> > >http://font.ubuntu.com/
>>
>> > > The recent 0.80 release of the Ubuntu Fonts includes Ubuntu Mono in
>> > > Regular, Regular Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic variants. It's the
>> > > default font for the Terminal in next week's release of Oneiric
>> > > Ocelot, Ubuntu 11.10. I've tried it in MacVim and Gnome Gvim and it
>> > > looks decent. As the version number implies, the fonts (particularly
>> > > Mono) are a work in progress.
>>
>> > In terminal they look really bad)
>>
>> Some, including me, like Ubuntu Mono in Terminal.
>>
>> > Looks more like famous Comic Sans=)
>>
>> Apparently, Ubuntu Mono is being tweaked (but not designed) by Vincent
>> Connare, the designer of Comic Sans:http://design.canonical.com/2011/09/ubuntu-monospace-beta/. He also
>> designed Trebuchet, which is a much more respectable font.
>>
>> > Letter "M" - why did they do it?!
>>
>> That's been controversial. See the above link for some background.
>> Also,https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+bug/869961
>>
>> > My choise for terminal is Liberation Mono.
>>
>> --
>> /George V. Reilly  geo...@reilly.org  Twitter: @georgevreillyhttp://www.georgevreilly.com/blog  http://blogs.cozi.com/tech
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