[squeak-dev] Need better default code font

Tom Beckmann tomjonabc at gmail.com
Fri Apr 9 18:27:29 UTC 2021


Hi everyone,

I went ahead and loaded some of the fonts mentioned in this thread and gave
them a spin in the image. Note that these are rendered with freetype, so if
you use Balloon2D you may get different results. If you have other
favorites or a preferred method to "benchmark" the looks, let me know.


Input Sans, 10
[image: Screenshot from 2021-04-09 20-11-34.png]

Ubuntu Mono, 11
[image: Screenshot from 2021-04-09 20-13-04.png]

Roboto, 11
[image: Screenshot from 2021-04-09 20-15-36.png]
Fira Sans, 11
[image: Screenshot from 2021-04-09 20-17-34.png]
Source Sans Pro, 12
[image: Screenshot from 2021-04-09 20-25-12.png]

Best,
Tom

On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 10:37 PM Jecel Assumpcao Jr <jecel at merlintec.com>
wrote:

> Douglas Brebner wrote on Mon, 5 Apr 2021 08:42:31 +0100
> > On 04/04/2021 23:06, tim Rowledge wrote:
> > > I really wish there was a propelr left-arrow-assign for use to use. I
> hate ':='; it's so.... C
> >
> >
> > I thought it was taken from Pascal.
>
> Digitalk introduced ":=" to Smalltalk in its Methods implementation for
> the IBM PC even though that machine did have a left arrow characeter
> (but with a very different encoding than 1963 ASCII used by Xerox).
> Given that the first part of the manual showed code fragments in Methods
> and Pascal side by side, it is clear that the choice was indeed made to
> make Pascal programmers (the most numerous in the early 1980s) feel at
> home.
>
> See chapter 2 of
> >
> http://www.wirfs-brock.com/allen/files/digitalk/methods-language-guide.pdf
>
> Note that not all PDF readers can handle this file.
>
> -- Jecel
>
>
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