Smoothansi font (best for programming)
The smoothansi font from the Artwiz font pack seems to me to be the best font for programming possible!It’s amazing! It is bitmapped so no antialiasing is necessary, which makes it easily readable, it isn’t too small (like proggy fonts) for large displays, but still smaller than most TTF fonts so that more lines of code can fit into one screen. The only drawbacks are that it does not provide a Windows version and it does not have bold characters (that stinks)!
So to remove these drawbacks I made my own remake of this font (including bold fonts) and also found a pcftofon.exe program that converts .PCF fonts to Windows format .FON files.
Fonts:
smoothansi.pcf.gz
smoothansi-bold.pcf.gz
Conversion utility:
http://www.ank.com.ar/fonts/pcftofon.exe
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July 8th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Very nice, I’m unable to create a .FON file however, pcftofon says it’s too large. :(
July 10th, 2008 at 3:44 am
Same Problem, can’t create font or find a version for win.
Professional font-tools (demos) also couldn’t help me (convertion-problems)
July 10th, 2008 at 7:48 am
You’re right! That is because my version of the fonts are modified (actually I added a few characters) and this breaks the PCF format in some way, which is why pcftofon.exe says that it’s too large.
To make it work just use the original smoothansi.pcf font file from here.
Of course smoothansi doesn’t have unicode support; if it had it would be a huge success IMHO. Also this article may be of some help with localization.