diff --git a/blog/adobe-source-code-pro-font-not-for-small-sizes.mdwn b/blog/adobe-source-code-pro-font-not-for-small-sizes.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6b104198 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/adobe-source-code-pro-font-not-for-small-sizes.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +[[!meta title="Adobe Source Code Pro font - Nice to read, but not on small sizes"]] + +A friend of mine pointed me to the +release of the +[Source Code Pro font](https://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro.html) +from Adobe, which can be found on +[github](https://github.com/adobe/Source-Code-Pro). + +I told urxvt to use the font using the escape sequence + + printf '\33]50;%s\007' "xft:Source Code Pro" + +which looks like this: + +[[!img scp.png alt="Source Code Pro in a terminal"]] + +(this required a new urxvt instance to be started, because urxvtd seems +not to pickup font additions during run) + +As the resolution on the MacBook Air is "only" 1440x900, I am normally +using the **fixed** font to have a lot of space for the text. This +is how it looks like: + +[[!img fixed.png alt="Source Code Pro in a terminal"]] + +Putting both terminals side by side, I am loosing 12 rows from the size +different. + +As the +[Source Code Pro font is not designed for this small size](https://github.com/adobe/Source-Code-Pro/issues/28) +I happily continue to use fixed for now. + +Besides being to large for my use case, Source Code Pro could become a quite +interesting font for coders. + +[[!tag net unix]] diff --git a/blog/adobe-source-code-pro-font-not-for-small-sizes/fixed.png b/blog/adobe-source-code-pro-font-not-for-small-sizes/fixed.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0ffd9f00 Binary files /dev/null and b/blog/adobe-source-code-pro-font-not-for-small-sizes/fixed.png differ diff --git a/blog/adobe-source-code-pro-font-not-for-small-sizes/scp.png b/blog/adobe-source-code-pro-font-not-for-small-sizes/scp.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..321d62a6 Binary files /dev/null and b/blog/adobe-source-code-pro-font-not-for-small-sizes/scp.png differ