Daily Archive: 2012.12.18

Ok, I know for a fact that my friends list here has a very high percentage of UNIX geeks. It’s you to whom I speak now.

What is your favorite monospace / fixed-width font? If you say Courier New, you will be disqualified from the discussion. (Kidding, kidding. If you say Courier, you will be disqualified.)

The criteria for me are:

• character differentiation: I should be able to type iI1!lL and be able to tell what I typed (lower case i, upper case I, numeral 1, exclamation point, lower case L, upper case L). Same with oO0 (lower case o, upper case O, zero).
• reasonably full character set: I’d like to have a few extended characters beyond ASCII, for typesetting purposes. Things like bullets (•) and degrees symbols (°) are nice.
• font variants, mostly for typesetting, but also for some terminals: bold, italic options.
• availability: available online, in OTF (by preference) or TTF.
• price: free is good, cheap is acceptable, expensive is nice to know so I can dream.

What say you?

(Ok, I know for most of you, this isn’t going to seem like madness. It will, in fact, probably seem like a fairly boring day. But I have largely turned into a hermit, and one with somewhat limited mobility, to boot. So, it’s a kind of madness.)

Today’s agenda:

• 2 loads of laundry
• trying to find all of my blocking materials
• drive to Columbia to return long-unused cable boxes (and remotes), so Vz can stop charging us some ridiculous amount of money each month
• phone call with a friend about helping with a dog rescue web site
• trip to a local yarn store to buy needles for Teresa and any blocking materials I couldn’t find
• trip to Teresa’s house to block a couple of Christmas presents (which will undoubtedly result in unhappy knees and/or back)

After that, I think I shall come home, have a glass of wine or two, and watch some silly movie. Or maybe my cats rampaging around the house. Or knit. (Though, not so much the knitting after the second glass of wine.)

Wish me luck!