Envy Code R PR7 vs PR6 - Preview thoughts
For a while now I've been a major fan of Damien Guard's Envy Code R programming font, and have been using preview 6 as my primary coding font for ages. I was lucky enough to get sent a preview version of PR7 which I've been using for most of the day so far and have a few immediate thoughts...
Note: All screen shots and usage so far is under Java 6, IntelliJ IDEA, Ubuntu Hardy Heron. The left version is PR6 and the right PR7.
When using 13pt I'm not noticing that many differences yet - I suppose this in itself is a testament to how good PR6 already was. I'm sure the more I use it I'll start to notice some of the finer adjustments:
It's when I drop myself to smaller font sizes do we really see the improvements Damien's recently made. I normally prefer working with a slightly smaller font, using 11pt clearly shows a marked improvement:
And for the masochists among us, a 10pt variation, which was pretty much unusable has become clean, crisp, readable - but still way to small for use at the resolution of this laptop.
As it stands, I believe the 12pt setting is my current "sweet spot" for this machine and I'm looking forward to trying out PR7 on the Mac once I get home tonight, and I'm definitely looking forward to a publicly available PR7 release - great work Damien!
