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Subject: Re: [9fans] problem using a vera font in rio
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On 16 Feb 2010, at 04:57, andrey mirtchovski wrote:

> perhaps this article could be of interest to this discussion. it only
> considers fixed-width fonts but is worth a look if you're looking for
> better fonts:
>
> http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts
>
> I have not attempted to convert any of these fonts to rio/acme. If you
> do I'd love to see the results posted here.
>
> Myself, I'm stuck with Monaco. Anti-aliased in the editor, aliased in
> a terminal.
>
Bump the font size up by 1 in the terminal. Monaco stops being anti-
aliased at a far larger size than you'd expect.