It's because like Python, F# uses indentation to control scope.

To be honest though, I'd take curly brackets over the alternatives any day

I personally find monospaced fonts a lot easier to read when dealing with code - can't put my finger on what exactly makes it that way, but it's not exclusively being able to line things up.

Funny. I always thought that too. (It's definitely not just about lining things up.)

I used to suspect it was from coding "to card" and (later on) to either a CRT terminal or a standardized input form. But there's lots of people who (mercifully) never had to deal with that nonsense that have said much the same thing.

Maybe it's some sort of gestalt or perceptual psych thing where:

monospace font = machine code and

proportional font = human language?

Dunno...

Interestingly enough, many editors will tell you that a lot more typos get caught when a manuscript uses a monospaced font like Courier than they do when it uses a proportional font like Times.

Apparently there's something going on that your brain mentally fills in, glosses over, or corrects more when it's reading proportional fonts.

it's user-selectable if you like it or not. For some reason Miles does.

select if you like it...:

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I don't. How can you possibly LIKE this, Miles???!  

it's user-selectable if you like it or not. For some reason Miles does.

select if you like it...:
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I don't. How can you possibly LIKE this, Miles???!  

I think it's very smooth.
Just look through the list of fonts Windows puts on your machine by default, click them in an editor, and add up how many you can't even read.  I bet it's at least half.


edit: one thing I do like about it, for readme files and that type of stuff, you can read it clearly without making it so large the editor window has to take up 80% of the screen.  It's less likely to kick in word wrap if it's enabled in an editor.

And recently, messing around with an Autoit3 script in SCite, I was struck by how much easier the proportional fonts are to read than the monospaced ones are at similar sizes (trying both Consolas and Dina).

One thing I noticed about the SciTEforAutoit3 defaults is that they use an awful lot of boldface and italic. Turned all that off, and Dina looks 100% better and I think I'll stick with it for a while.

Tried Dina, didn't like it for some reason.
I remember the capital 'M' being really out-of place looking because the middle appears to go lower than the baseline.

For standard user interface stuff (desktop icons, menus, etc.), I've gotten real cozy with Eurostile. The square-ish look is easy to read while retaining the monospace techy vibe.
For everything else, there's DejaVu and ArtWiz

Tried Dina, didn't like it for some reason.
I remember the capital 'M' being really out-of place looking because the middle appears to go lower than the baseline.

For standard user interface stuff (desktop icons, menus, etc.), I've gotten real cozy with Eurostile. The square-ish look is easy to read while retaining the monospace techy vibe.
For everything else, there's DejaVu and ArtWiz

Eurostile does look nice for plain text. Even the smaller sizes are very legible.

What do you think about this font dedicated to celebrities, having famous people with each letter? Celeb Faces Font

Unless they have Ed Grimley I don't even want to look don't you know!

Quote from: Curt on May 21, 2010, 11:36 PM

Quote from: famouswhy.com

... There are no Reviews for 'Celeb Faces' yet.

It may be interesting for very short period of time only. Let's say, in ten years from now, only a minority will know who characters like X-Zibit, Kim Kardashian,  Halle Bery, Paris Hilton, Usher, ever were.

... maybe things like this font keeps their fame forever even after 10-20 years from now. 

Speaking of fame, one of the strangest jazz sessions I ever attended was Nat Adderley.  Before the music started they had these Post Office guys and a jazz DJ make this speech about these other jazz musicians whose images were being used for new postage stamps.  Like, the guy who was about to play was just as famous.  He just wasn't dead yet!!!  Weird.

The one I downloaded was a free font.  If you look hard enough you can find it.  I forget where I got it and don't want to spend the time. Already found it once.

Aha! I found an open-license alternative.
The League of Movable Type
[...]

wow, nice site with the motto "No more [BS]. Join the revolution" 

Quote from: MilesAhead on May 25, 2010, 04:07 AM

Here's an interesting one. Looks like there's no upper case characters.  Still, it has kind of a cool look:
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/roundabout-Download-160055.html
One thing for sure, you don't need Bold with this!

It is hard for me to believe from the readme that the author is a Dane, since the font doesn't include any of the special Danish characters. Weird!

Curt, are you familiar with Aller?

Dalton Maag design team designed a beautiful sans-serif Aller Sans, sponsored by Danish publishing company Aller (hence the name). The typeface was designed as part of the Danish School of Media and Journalisms new CI and is now available for free use and download

it's first on this list
- it's lovely printed, probably not a display font though (but I'm no expert in these things)