Comment 9 for bug 727733

Hi Paul. While the technical details of font design are going over my head
:), I really do appreciate you keeping an eye out for the programming use
case. As I said, the Ubuntu Mono fonts are so beautiful, I really want to be
using them!

On Mar 08, 2011, at 08:14 AM, Paul Sladen wrote:

>Barry, I don't the aim should be to "cram it in"... we're aiming for
>good, universal defaults here. The logic for the 83% scaling was
>perhaps fairly thin, but at the time it was the fastest way to get a
>test that might solve the overlaps. On the attached PDF you can see how
>the line-counts should compare. The current test proposal would give 48
>lines (vs. originally 52 with with unsatisfactory overlaps, or 42
>without overlaps).

I can also appreciate the trade-offs involved, and agree that Ubuntu Mono
should not have a goal of cramming as much information onto the screen as
possible. Maybe the middle font (500@13pt 2:1 ratio) will be a good trade
off.

Thanks for keeping us programmers in mind and I look forward to trying the
next iteration of the Mono fonts. I've settled back on R17 for the last
couple of weeks, but I'll go back to trying R21 at a smaller point size, at
least until the next iteration comes out.

Cheers.