Re: [orion-dev] Source Code Pro font

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The font is definitely functional, but I find it a bit heavy handed.

McQ.

Anton McConville---2012/09/24 15:57:19---Hi Ian, Technically it is possible to support that font ( or/and others ). To prove

From: Anton McConville/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA
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Date: 2012/09/24 15:57
Subject: Re: [orion-dev] Source Code Pro font
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Hi Ian,

Technically it is possible to support that font ( or/and others ). To prove it, I've attached a screenshot of Orion's editor using the source-code-pro font as an experiment.

(See attached file: sourcecodesans.png)

You can see it stand out in the 0, 1, lowercase L and i - I think it is a really nice font for coding ( just my opinion ) and will likely experiment with it in my daily work for a while.

I've added some more notes to this pre-existing bug.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=386709 

I reworked how the editor themes were created and changed in the latest version of Orion and in doing so withdrew some controls on the fonts for now. The intention is to revisit this as we progress - and to see what makes sense with the rapidly changing world of web fonts these days :) It pays to be careful and to test on lots of platforms/browsers with them to make sure it all scales too.

Thanks for the note.

Anton

"Ian Skerrett" ---09/24/2012 02:29:39 PM---Seems like Adobe just open sourced a new font for source code. Would this make sense to be used within Orion?

From:	"Ian Skerrett" <ian.skerrett@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To:	<orion-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	09/24/2012 02:29 PM
Subject:	[orion-dev] Source Code Pro font

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Seems like Adobe just open sourced a new font for source code. Would this make sense to be used within Orion?

http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro.html

Ian
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