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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] problem using a vera font in rio
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:35:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d61fa6d629c248005f42dfaccf02dd51@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dd6fe68a1002151939k75885facne37723d3b2e82f31@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon Feb 15 22:42:21 EST 2010, rsc@swtch.com wrote:
> Or you could use a non-ugly font.

helvetica has the similar properties, especially in reasonable point
sizes for programming.  if antialiased, the fs would run together.

http://www.linotype.com/526/helvetica-family.html?PHPSESSID=21f2dcac2d82c8a33f687cfb59ed88f3&subviewmode=FONTS&samplestr=vera+ffi

i hope you never need italic.  :-)

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-16  4:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-14 11:21 Rudolf Sykora
2010-02-14 18:34 ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-14 19:09   ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-02-14 19:52     ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-02-15  4:15     ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-16  3:39       ` Russ Cox
2010-02-16  4:35         ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-02-16  4:57           ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-02-16  5:07             ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-16  6:58             ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-02-17 16:31             ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-02-17 16:44               ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-02-25 21:45                 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-02-25 22:01                   ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-25 23:08                   ` Russ Cox
2010-02-25 23:36                     ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-02-26  2:11                       ` Russ Cox
2010-02-26  2:43                         ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-26  2:53                           ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-02 16:49                             ` [9fans] int errno / errno.h patch EBo
2010-03-03  5:15                               ` Russ Cox
2010-03-03 14:02                                 ` EBo
2010-03-03 17:59                                   ` Charles Forsyth
2010-02-26 14:01                           ` [9fans] problem using a vera font in rio matt
2010-02-26 16:37                             ` david bulkow
2010-03-08 18:42                           ` Albert Skye

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