Overcome By Beauty
My linux installs have always been pretty ugly. I, for some stupid reason, have always felt in the back of my mind that making linux pretty wasn't right. I'm not sure why this made sense. Today at work, Sean and Chris and I were talking and we ended up trying to solve some weird problem nobody here would care about. Sean had to open up some code, and Chris and I were both thrown off by his fonts. They were proportional! Not having ugly-ass fixed-width fonts for your programming was totally strange idea.
This spawned a larger discussion of fonts in general, and to make a long story very short, I finally installed a set of nice, smooth, anti-aliased (read: super smooth, even) fonts on the laptop. It's damn beautiful. You should see Firefox and IRC now. Of course, I then went right off the deep end and turned my IRC chat into a Gothic novel with some ridiculous font that you can barely read. And it still looked beautiful. I almost left it like that just to watch the text scroll by. Not that I could read half of it with all the squigglies, but it was something.
My eyes have been opened. Next week I might even work up the courage to try some programming with a proportional font. Perhaps someone should dial 9 and 1, just in case.
This spawned a larger discussion of fonts in general, and to make a long story very short, I finally installed a set of nice, smooth, anti-aliased (read: super smooth, even) fonts on the laptop. It's damn beautiful. You should see Firefox and IRC now. Of course, I then went right off the deep end and turned my IRC chat into a Gothic novel with some ridiculous font that you can barely read. And it still looked beautiful. I almost left it like that just to watch the text scroll by. Not that I could read half of it with all the squigglies, but it was something.
My eyes have been opened. Next week I might even work up the courage to try some programming with a proportional font. Perhaps someone should dial 9 and 1, just in case.
posted by SomeJerk at 5:50 PM
2 Comments:
Maybe you should take baby steps and make just the comment proportional. At the very least I would make them a smaller font (proportional obviously helps crush it too). Most of the time you aren't reading the comments anyway, and it makes more code fit onto one screen.
Yea that would be a good place to start, and you aren't exactly used to having things line up all nice in a comment block. Wouldn't throw the brain off too much.
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