Dina Programming Font
Copyright � 2005 by J�rgen Ibsen, All Rights Reserved.
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IntroductionDina is a monospace bitmap font, primarily aimed at programmers. It is relatively compact to allow a lot of code on screen, while (hopefully) clear enough to remain readable even at high resolutions.I made this font after having tried all the free programming fonts I could find. Somehow there was some detail in each of them that meant I couldn’t work with them in the long run.The closest to perfect I found was the Proggy font, which the author kindly allows you to modify. So I started building this font using Proggy as the base, and with inspiration from Tobi, Fixedsys and some old DOS fonts I used to love.
This version is the result of intense tweaking and testing, and I am quite happy with it now.
Font Format
Dina is a monospace bitmap font in Windows FON file format. It is available as:
- 8pt regular, bold, italic, bold italic
- 9pt regular, bold, italic, bold italic
- 10pt regular, bold, italic, bold italic
All styles are the same width for proper alignment.
Motivation
In designing a programming font the following guidelines were followed:
- Needs to be monospaced
- It has to be easy to see the difference between i, l, 1, I
- It has to be easy to see the difference between o, O, 0
- The symbols used in programming languages have to look ‘right’
- Braces should line up nicely
- Still has to be pleasant to read passages of text
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