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My coding fonts and colors - Revisited

With Scott's Visual Studio's theme rundown, I'm getting requests for my VS Settings file for my older example. I can't give you the exact same colors, as I've tweaked them a little. Fear not, the look is almost the same, but I did change the font. Here's the rationale: With a bigger LCD screen, I do benefit from ClearType. Then ProggySquare becomes useless, since it's a fixed size (12) bitmap font. That's why I switched back to Lucida Console. I don't have the slashed or dotted zero, but it doesn't seem to bother me. I do like Consolas, except for that weird "g". And the ClearType effect is not as great as with Lucida Console, probably because I tweaked it with their Verdana example, I don't know.

But when working on my 15" laptop, Lucida Console and Consolas just don't cut it for me. ProggySquare becomes way better! I don't have TrueBright on my Dell laptop. Maybe that's why I need a crisp font without anti-aliasing effects... go figure.

So here's the latest screenshot on my desktop:

slimCODE IDE Settings - Desktop

And that's how it looks on my laptop:

slimCODE IDE Settings - Laptop

And finally, you can download my VSSETTINGS file with the Lucida Console font.

 

Published Friday, February 08, 2008 3:43 PM by slimcode
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slimCODE, aka Martin Plante : My Coding Font and Colors said:

February 8, 2008 11:01 AM
 

Charlie Calvert's Community Blog said:

Developers with a bit of time on their hands have built some beautiful color schemes for the Visual Studio

May 26, 2008 4:02 PM
 

Damien Guard said:

Try Envy Code R - it looks good with ClearType on at all sizes and has the distinguished characters and if you turn smoothing off it still looks good around 9-11 point.

http://damieng.com/envy-code-r

[)amien

May 26, 2008 8:54 PM
 

Dot.Blog said:

Des skins pour Visual Studio 2008 !

June 14, 2008 11:12 AM

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