Comments on: Choose a good font - your eyes will thank you

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:41:22 +0000

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

tobias — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:43:59 +0000

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

junziyang — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:14:16 +0000

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

Ken — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:17:48 +0000

No problem Mark…glad to help. Enjoy your font!

By: Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:17:15 +0000

Ken, thanks for replying @3 and giving such clear instructions on how to get this to work.

By: Steve Eddins

Steve Eddins — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:20:10 +0000

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

Ken — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:09:24 +0000

@Jiro: Andale Mono looks nice! I especially like the rendering of the letter “g”.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:04:13 +0000

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

By: Jiro

Jiro — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:58:43 +0000

Ken,
That’s a nice font. I use “Andale Mono” which has a similar look. I also like the clear distinction it makes between “l” (lower case L) and the number “1″.

By: Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:49:02 +0000

Ken, should this work with version 7.0 (R14) on Windows? My favorite font is Consolas, but MATLAB seems to do a terrible job of rendering it on screen. In fact, about the only font that doesn’t get butchered is Courier New.

Perhaps there is some other setting I need to tweek?