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[[!meta title="Adobe Source Code Pro font - Nice to read, but not on small sizes"]]
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A friend of mine pointed me to the
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release of the
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[Source Code Pro font](https://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro.html)
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from Adobe, which can be found on
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[github](https://github.com/adobe/Source-Code-Pro).
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I told urxvt to use the font using the escape sequence
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printf '\33]50;%s\007' "xft:Source Code Pro"
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which looks like this:
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[[!img scp.png alt="Source Code Pro in a terminal"]]
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(this required a new urxvt instance to be started, because urxvtd seems
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not to pickup font additions during run)
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As the resolution on the MacBook Air is "only" 1440x900, I am normally
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using the **fixed** font to have a lot of space for the text. This
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is how it looks like:
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[[!img fixed.png alt="Source Code Pro in a terminal"]]
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Putting both terminals side by side, I am loosing 12 rows from the size
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different.
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As the
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[Source Code Pro font is not designed for this small size](https://github.com/adobe/Source-Code-Pro/issues/28)
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I happily continue to use fixed for now.
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Besides being to large for my use case, Source Code Pro could become a quite
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interesting font for coders.
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If you are interested in more usable fonts for terminals,
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have a look at the
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[[Xorg terminal emulator font list|docs/xorg-terminal-emulator-fonts]].
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[[!tag net unix]]
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