Comments on: Choose a good font – your eyes will thank you https://blogs.mathworks.com/community/2008/09/01/choose-a-good-font-your-eyes-will-thank-you/?s_tid=feedtopost News from the intersection of MATLAB, Community, and the web. Fri, 25 May 2018 19:55:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 By: Brent https://blogs.mathworks.com/community/2008/09/01/choose-a-good-font-your-eyes-will-thank-you/#comment-36810 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:51:16 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/09/01/choose-a-good-font-your-eyes-will-thank-you/#comment-36810 Can anyone tell me how to change the font in the Help Window in R2012b?

]]>
By: caner https://blogs.mathworks.com/community/2008/09/01/choose-a-good-font-your-eyes-will-thank-you/#comment-8825 Tue, 01 May 2012 08:49:38 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/09/01/choose-a-good-font-your-eyes-will-thank-you/#comment-8825 very helpful, thank you

]]>
By: Cindy https://blogs.mathworks.com/community/2008/09/01/choose-a-good-font-your-eyes-will-thank-you/#comment-6476 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:41:22 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/09/01/choose-a-good-font-your-eyes-will-thank-you/#comment-6476 Great advice for us beginners! If planning to write comments in other languages Andale Mono can serve that purpose well. If not, I would certainly prefer Bitstream Vera Sans Mono!

]]>
By: tobias https://blogs.mathworks.com/community/2008/09/01/choose-a-good-font-your-eyes-will-thank-you/#comment-5931 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:43:59 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/09/01/choose-a-good-font-your-eyes-will-thank-you/#comment-5931 In Linux the font hinting is much much too strong. I would love to get light hinting like on OSX. In addition, the pseudo-ClearType LCD-filtering in java is very ugly; It causes color fringes.

]]>
By: junziyang https://blogs.mathworks.com/community/2008/09/01/choose-a-good-font-your-eyes-will-thank-you/#comment-5871 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:14:16 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/09/01/choose-a-good-font-your-eyes-will-thank-you/#comment-5871 The code in Bitstream Vera Sans Monospaced is beautiful and easy to read. But the comments other in English become little square symbols(□) after changed to this font.

]]>
By: Ken https://blogs.mathworks.com/community/2008/09/01/choose-a-good-font-your-eyes-will-thank-you/#comment-5781 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:17:48 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/09/01/choose-a-good-font-your-eyes-will-thank-you/#comment-5781 No problem Mark…glad to help. Enjoy your font!

]]>
By: Mark Andrews https://blogs.mathworks.com/community/2008/09/01/choose-a-good-font-your-eyes-will-thank-you/#comment-5780 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:17:15 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/09/01/choose-a-good-font-your-eyes-will-thank-you/#comment-5780 Ken, thanks for replying @3 and giving such clear instructions on how to get this to work.

]]>
By: Steve Eddins https://blogs.mathworks.com/community/2008/09/01/choose-a-good-font-your-eyes-will-thank-you/#comment-5759 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:20:10 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/09/01/choose-a-good-font-your-eyes-will-thank-you/#comment-5759 Hi Ken,

Every year or so I try to find a programming font that would really make me happy. A couple of months ago I discovered Bitstream Vera Sans Monospaced, and I really like it. It might just be a keeper.

Steve

]]>
By: Ken https://blogs.mathworks.com/community/2008/09/01/choose-a-good-font-your-eyes-will-thank-you/#comment-5757 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:09:24 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/09/01/choose-a-good-font-your-eyes-will-thank-you/#comment-5757 @Jiro: Andale Mono looks nice! I especially like the rendering of the letter “g”.

]]>
By: Ken https://blogs.mathworks.com/community/2008/09/01/choose-a-good-font-your-eyes-will-thank-you/#comment-5756 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:04:13 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/09/01/choose-a-good-font-your-eyes-will-thank-you/#comment-5756 Hi Mark,

The issue your referring to (see the bug report here) was fixed in version 7.5 (R2007b). The problem actually was with Sun’s handling of ClearType font rendering (see the Java bug here).

If you’re really set on getting Consolas to work you have two options:
1) Upgrade to R2007b or newer (preferred option)
2) Install and run with Java 6 (instruction for this can be found here)

Note, however, that MATLAB is only supported on the version of Java that we ship (1.4.2 for R14SP1).

-Ken

]]>