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Chris Rickard
Personal blog · chrisrickard.blogspot.comdesignprogramming
Chris Rickard writes How now, brown cow., a personal blog at chrisrickard.blogspot.com about design and programming. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2010, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its TTF conversions of the Dina programming font, which commenters use in IDEs and editors. Comments mostly link the posts as sources and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
This needs an option to adjust the font size used with samples. Lots of fonts show some really weird artifacts in smaller sizes. Also, the list needs Dina [1] in its TTF version [2] [1] https://www.dcmembers.com/jibsen/download/61/ [2] https://chrisrickard.blogspot.com/2010/05/geenatcom-dina-ttf...
Comment linking /2010/05/geenatcom-dina-ttf.html
on “Dev Fonts”> ... all except Visual Studio 2010 ... I'm also a fan of Dina and it's been the first change I make to any IDE or programming text editor I use since I found it years ago. I recently came across this when I started using IntelliJ IDEA and needed a TTF font: http://chrisrickard.blogspot.com/2010/03/dina-font-for-visua... . Quote from the page: *bonus* I found that this font can also be used with any .NET application…
Comment linking /2010/03/dina-font-for-visual-studio-2010.html
on “Top Programming Fonts”It's again a good time to plug the best programming font, the open secret to many - Dina: https://www.dcmembers.com/jibsen/download/61/ Including its two TTF versions (which are separately notable for using obscure TTF fearure to achieve a proper pixelated look): http://chrisrickard.blogspot.com/2010/05/geenatcom-dina-ttf.... http://www.geenat.com/?p=66
Comment linking /2010/05/geenatcom-dina-ttf.html
on “Input: Fonts for Code”