The font, unlike even the Mac Terminal, is deftly anti-aliased, and to a designer the font appears to have been clearly designed for usability. This has a more readable font, and it makes productive use of space: more specifically, it uses space to enhance usability and readability, not cram in as many bits per pixel as can still technically be read. Let's look at a terminal that shows much better typography and design: What this is optimized for is densely packing information into a tight space, and for serious coding this is seriously answering the wrong question. It has a black background, like ancient VT100's: This is a (cropped) screenshot of the default term (xterm) that shipped with my EeePC. In the spirit of the sort of makeover done by Tufte in books like Envisioning Information, I would like to look at three different terms the last one is the one offered here. Since then, I've joined the rest of the web in recognizing the benefits of using a font optimized for on-screen reading. The first incarnation of my own website used fixed-width fonts for almost everything, because I didn't know what I was doing. Those of us involved in web design and usability know that fonts are not created equal. Gnome Terminal appears to be in the Gnome Terminal bug tracker, and so this functionality may be available someday in standard terminal programs by setting one's font to Verdana. The basic enhancement of allowing this for e.g.

It does not seem to work well with current browser versions, and it is being left partly as a historical detail, with a clear reference implementation of how one would do this with today's browser. This project works with archaic browsers, like FireFox 3 or (shudder) Internet Explorer 6.

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