[Talk] Windows fonts and ASCII art

A small request to Windows users. Basically, Courier (New) is considered
the "standard" fixed-size font, but to my humble opinion, it destroys the
appeal of an ASCII picture. It sucks. I tried some other fonts such as
fixedsys, and they are an improvement over Courier. Still I think many
pictures look better on other systems and terminals. What I want to know
is, what is -your- favorite Windows font for displaying ASCII art? Do you
know more tricks eg. patching the line-spacing?

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Lennert Stock (len...@xs4all.nl) wrote:

: A small request to Windows users. Basically, Courier (New) is considered
: the "standard" fixed-size font, but to my humble opinion, it destroys the
: appeal of an ASCII picture. It sucks.

Perhaps someone should make a fixed-size Windows font which is optimised
for displaying ascii art.

: Still I think many pictures look better on other systems and terminals.

Well, Hey, if you can supply a bitmap of the font, I can turn it into a
Windows font.  Raster only I'm afraid, I don't have a TrueType editor.

Alden Bates.
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Alden Bates (bat...@wn.planet.gen.nz) wrote:
> Lennert Stock (len...@xs4all.nl) wrote:

> : A small request to Windows users. Basically, Courier (New) is considered
> : the "standard" fixed-size font, but to my humble opinion, it destroys the
> : appeal of an ASCII picture. It sucks.

> Perhaps someone should make a fixed-size Windows font which is optimised
> for displaying ascii art.

	I use Terminal 9 whenever possible, it looks pretty good to me!

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