Still, I'm not earning anything by promoting his fonts, I think the quality of his work deserves it). (Disclaimer: the author of PragmataPro is the designer of my book covers and a person I have a business relationship with. This ProgamataPro font is the extension of the older Pragmata font, by the same author, Fabrizio Schiavi, a font designer who made this fixed-size font specifically for programmers. As you can see pragmata is as tall as Courier (Lucida let's you fit more lines in the editor), but Pragmata is more compact horizontally, so you can fit 80 or even 100 characters in the screen, even with all those side panes that Delphi and other IDEs use these days. These iamges show the same text in Courier New, Lucida Consule, and PragmataPro all at size 12. In the past I often moved from the classic Courier New (the default in Delphi) to Lucida Console (which I prefer to showing code when I do a presentation). There aren't many fixed size fonts out there. ![]() Of course, your choice of fonts is limited by the fact you need a fixed with font, and not a proportional one, so that words show up in "columns" and indentation works as expected. When is the last time you change font of your preferred editor? ![]() While we spend a lot of time reading and writing source code, we often forget the the readability of what is on the screen depends also on the font we use. Before I get to the key topic, let me underline that fact that most of you probably spend a lot of time using an editor (either the one in the Delphi IDE, or the editor of in Visual Studio, Eclipse, on any other IDE, as well as stand alone editors). ![]() I've been using the PragmataPro font in Delphi recently and I really like it a lot.
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