Re: Coder friendly font

From	Curt <curty@free.fr>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Coder friendly font
Date	2015-09-21 20:30 +0200
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On 2015-09-21, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 21 September 2015 18:16:59 Curt wrote:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frutiger_%28typeface%29
>>
>> "Frutiger (pronounced with a hard g) is a series of typefaces named after
>> its Swiss designer, Adrian Frutiger. Frutiger is a humanist sans-serif
>> typeface, intended to be clear and highly legible at a distance or at
>> small text sizes. A very popular design worldwide, font designer Steve
>> Matteson described its structure as "the best choice for legibility in
>> pretty much any situation" at small text sizes, while Erik Spiekermann
>> named it as "the best general typeface ever"."
>
> Sadly, it appears not to be available for Debian, or rather, in the Debian 
> Wheezy repositories.

It's copyrighted.  You'd have to buy it (from Adobe, e.g.), I suppose,
if you wish to use it.

Still, one of the best, if not the best, font in the world for
legibility, used everywhere from the Charles de Gaulle airport in France
to the German Karlsruhe Institute of Technology to Amtrak, is a
sans-serif font, contrary to what that other guy (who I think owns
Volkswagen stock) implied.

> I use large point Bitstream Vera Sans.  Of all the ones I have tried, I have 
> found it the easiest and the least tiring, but I cannot justify this over 
> other similar fonts.  I just subjectively find it so.

Whatever works for you is fine.

> Lisi
>
>


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Coder friendly font Anonymous Pro (ttf-anonymous-pro) Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 18:40 +0200
  Re: Coder friendly font rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-09-21 18:50 +0200
    Re: Coder friendly font Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 19:00 +0200
      Re: Coder friendly font Tyler D <tdowg1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 19:30 +0200
    Re: Coder friendly font Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2015-09-21 19:20 +0200
      Re: Coder friendly font Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 20:00 +0200
        Re: Coder friendly font Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2015-09-21 20:30 +0200
          Re: Coder friendly font David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-09-21 21:20 +0200
        Re: Coder friendly font Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2015-09-21 20:30 +0200
    Re: Coder friendly font Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-09-21 20:00 +0200
      Re: Coder friendly font Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-09-21 20:20 +0200
        Re: Coder friendly font Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> - 2015-09-21 20:40 +0200
          Re: Coder friendly font Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-09-21 21:40 +0200
  Re: Coder friendly font Anonymous Pro (ttf-anonymous-pro) Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 18:50 +0200
  Re: Coder friendly font Anonymous Pro (ttf-anonymous-pro) Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-09-21 20:00 +0200
    Re: Coder friendly font Anonymous Pro (ttf-anonymous-pro) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-09-21 21:40 +0200
      Re: Coder friendly font Anonymous Pro (ttf-anonymous-pro) Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-09-22 00:10 +0200
        Re: Coder friendly font Anonymous Pro (ttf-anonymous-pro) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-09-22 07:00 +0200
  Re: Coder friendly font Anonymous Pro (ttf-anonymous-pro) Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2015-09-22 04:30 +0200

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