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kiami (Posted 2015) [#1]

Consolas is a great font for IDE, I use it in CodeBlocks, NetBeans, Blide IDE and many other IDEs, why in official IDE it is bold and ugly? Just compare and see it for yourself.

skidracer (Posted 2015) [#2]

On which OS?

kiami (Posted 2015) [#3]

Windows 8.

markcw (Posted 2015) [#4]

Maybe this post helps: http://www.blitzmax.com/Community/posts.php?topic=104854 Also, for alternatives Blide is very popular and for free is this http://www.blitzmax.com/Community/posts.php?topic=104860

kiami (Posted 2015) [#5]

Thanks, I have Blide, it is good. I like the official IDE because it loads fast. I will try Calibri.

GW (Posted 2015) [#6]

I've tried all kinds of fonts over the years. I've settled on Pro-font for the last few years. http://tobiasjung.name/profont/

Mr. Goober (Posted 2015) [#7]

BlitzMax is one of those languages that looks good with both monospaced and traditional fonts. Since BASIC was originally designed to look more like English, using spaces and tabs accordingly can work well with essentially any font. Except WingDings. Lol.

okee (Posted 2015) [#8]

I don't see any difference in quality with Consolas in Blitzmax to any other application that uses it i.e. Textpad purebasic etc Looks the same in both

kiami (Posted 2016) [#9]

@okee, Not for me, even with community edition. The community edition is actually not stable. I set the consolas font once which looks good, then when I reload BMAX, the font looks bad. Solution is to change the font after reload, then set to consolas back again every time, which is a headache. I use Windows 8, with Windows 7, the same.