On 16 October 2013 13:11, Goubier Thierry <thierry.goubier@cea.fr> wrote:

Le 16/10/2013 11:50, Sven Van Caekenberghe a ��crit :

On 16 Oct 2013, at 10:20, Goubier Thierry <thierry.goubier@cea.fr> wrote:

Interesting display, Sven.

My take on that:

* Aesthetics: the system has two fonts, not one. -1 if I review a document with more than one font.

In all documents, you have at least two fonts: body and headings, often quotes, examples, listings, etc have an another font to make them stand out. In the new approach, the idea is that monospaced fonts indicate code (in browsers, debuggers, workspaces). It is a useful principle.

You're right. But nobody would dare write headings in a monospaced font :) unless for an art project.

* Coherence / uniformity: A class name, a method selector has a different shape in the GUI (proportional) than in the code (monospaced). Are they different objects? Can I recognize my class name in the code without reading it?

Syntax highlighting should take care of that I guess.

I don't think so. This is no by making the selector green that it will look more like the proportional version in the pane above.

Kind of disrupting the uniformity of the underlying model, when I'm pushing for things like smart suggestions where the GUI understands the objects written in the code.

I think that if the monospaced font is a point size smaller that the main sans font (e.g. 12 and 11) the excessive width problem or visual shock is much more manageable. In any case, I am giving it a try.

Probably. But then individual characters may become harder to read and distinguish... sort of compromising character readability to make space for the added whitespace inherent to the monospaced font.

I'd be more impressed if the argument was helping me distinguish between | and l.

usually, most of sans-serif fonts barely distinguish between following 3:

l I |

��(capital i, low-case el, pipe)

I'l let you try, then :)

Thierry

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