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Re: Coder friendly font

From Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Coder friendly font
Date 2015-09-21 20:00 +0200
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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.

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.

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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