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@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ A few weeks later Dan posted a <a href="http://hivelogic.com/articles/view/anony
Around the same time as Dan's second post news broke that <a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/06/font-changes-coming-to-mac-os-x-snow-leopard.ars">Snow Leopard will ship with a new monospaced font</a> called Menlo that will replace the use of Monaco as the default font in applications like Terminal and Xcode. Menlo is derived from DejaVu Sans Mono which is in turn derived from Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. Jon Shea from ExpanDrive posted a <a href="http://blog.expandrive.com/2009/06/15/menlo-vera-sans-mono-comparison/">comparison of Menlo to Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</a> that shows the changes that Apple have made. From this comparison they all look quite sensible. The Vera family has been licensed in a <abbr title="Free and Open Source Software">FOSS</abbr> friendly manner and is included as a system font in many Linux distributions. I've also tried Vera Mono for programming in the past but again I still like the feel of Consolas more. Around the same time as Dan's second post news broke that <a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/06/font-changes-coming-to-mac-os-x-snow-leopard.ars">Snow Leopard will ship with a new monospaced font</a> called Menlo that will replace the use of Monaco as the default font in applications like Terminal and Xcode. Menlo is derived from DejaVu Sans Mono which is in turn derived from Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. Jon Shea from ExpanDrive posted a <a href="http://blog.expandrive.com/2009/06/15/menlo-vera-sans-mono-comparison/">comparison of Menlo to Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</a> that shows the changes that Apple have made. From this comparison they all look quite sensible. The Vera family has been licensed in a <abbr title="Free and Open Source Software">FOSS</abbr> friendly manner and is included as a system font in many Linux distributions. I've also tried Vera Mono for programming in the past but again I still like the feel of Consolas more.
Below is a screen shot of each font (<del datetime="2009-07-22T11:06:40+00:00">except Menlo, which isn't widely available yet</del> Menlo screen shot supplied by <a href="http://wezm.net/2009/06/programming-fonts-recap/#comment-3709">eric s</a>) in <a href="http://macromates.com/">TextMate</a> using my preferred theme, <a href="http://github.com/ryanb/textmate-themes/tree/master">Railscasts</a>. Note that my baseline was Consolas 13pt and I adjusted the others to approximately the same size. The code snippet used is the same as Dan used in his Anonymous Pro post. Below is a screen shot of each font (<del datetime="2009-07-22T11:06:40+00:00">except Menlo, which isn't widely available yet</del> Menlo screen shot supplied by *eric s*) in <a href="http://macromates.com/">TextMate</a> using my preferred theme, <a href="http://github.com/ryanb/textmate-themes/tree/master">Railscasts</a>. Note that my baseline was Consolas 13pt and I adjusted the others to approximately the same size. The code snippet used is the same as Dan used in his Anonymous Pro post.
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<h4>Consolas</h4> <h4>Consolas</h4>
<img src="/images/2009/06/Consolas.png" alt="Screenshot of Consolas in TextMate" title="Screenshot of Consolas in TextMate" width="470" height="327" class="size-full wp-image-164" /> <img src="/images/2009/06/Consolas.png" alt="Screenshot of Consolas in TextMate" title="Screenshot of Consolas in TextMate" width="470" height="327" class="size-full wp-image-164" />