monospaced font for coders

jonasstein · n00b Joined: 03 Mar 2013 Posts: 32

Which gentoo package provides high quality monospaced fonts for code writing? I want to add the font in emacs, so I would be interested in its system-name too.
I used this font on my old non-gentoo system:

jimmij · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Dec 2008 Posts: 135

I personally like lucidatypewriter and luxi mono.
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swimmer · Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 8:28 pm Post subject:

I just can recommend to have a look at http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/style/Monospaced ... a lot of useful and very nice fonts. My personal favorite at the moment is Verily Serif Mono ...

HTH
swimmer

PS: I know it's outside the Gentoo packaging system but you might find it useful anyway ;-)

jonasstein · n00b Joined: 03 Mar 2013 Posts: 32

djdunn · l33t Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 770 Location: Arrakis

ive tried many many fonts

my favorite is dejavu sans mono

in media-fonts/dejavu
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Randy Andy · Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 11:50 am Post subject:

flamingnoms · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2013 Posts: 9

Just came here to say proggy fonts, which is in portage (proggy-fonts).
http://www.proggyfonts.com/

I have yet to get it working though

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jonasstein · n00b Joined: 03 Mar 2013 Posts: 32

broken link? // no: http://www.proggyfonts.com/ was just temporary down.

swimmer · Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 12:11 am Post subject:

Not here ...