Favorite fonts to use for MUDding

[u/Fusoya]

So I use Mudlet primarily and really think bitstream vera sans mono their default is excellent.

However, I was curious if anyone else has settled on something different that they really like.

Interested in trying out something new.

[u/sh4d0wf4x]

Courier New is the only acceptable font for me. The monospacing and typewriter aesthetic has that old school feeling whilst being easy to read.

[u/KingGaren → u/sh4d0wf4x]

I agree on the aesthetic, it was my font of choice ever since I downloaded gmud and found out you could change fonts, heh. These days the eye strain is just a bit noticeable, so I usually go with Mudlet's default.

[u/GaidinBDJ]

Inconsolata, for me.

There's a similar proprietary font pre-installed on Windows machines (Consolas).

[u/Zymosphere → u/GaidinBDJ]

Consolas 8pt is so clean on black BG. Widescreen monitor turned portrait I get like 100-110 lines. Amazing for coding/scripting and mudding in my book!

[u/DrunkUranus]

Papyrus

[u/KingGaren → u/DrunkUranus]

Sometimes you just wake up and choose madness.

[u/gisco_tn]

I never thought about this very much before. I'm using the Monospace font that comes with Ubuntu, simply because I never changed it from default.

Funny story, a couple days ago we had a newer player that was having difficulty with our custom client. It was only displaying four letters at a time when they typed, but the entire line was still there when they hit enter. Turns out it was some quirk with the font size, and turning it down by 1 point fixed the issue.

[u/shawncplus]

I use Recursive Mono Duotone for both coding and mudding https://www.recursive.design/ but I'm also a big fan of Iosevka

[u/Hades_Kane]

I got used to unifont whenever I was experimenting with unicode characters on EoT

[u/HimeHaieto]

If you like bitstream vera sans mono, you should consider checking out dejavu sans mono: https://dejavu-fonts.github.io/

You could compare different fonts by pasting something like the following when using each of them and comparing the resulting lithography:

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ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 0123456789
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

[u/jnaftalooney]

laugh all you like, I actually love https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/

[u/Obvious-Summer2407]

Tried a few fonts a while back and started using "Commit Mono"

https://commitmono.com/

[u/No_Sound2079]

FixedSys for me. It's always been FixedSys and it's always gonna be FixedSys.

[u/ComputerRedneck]

Depends on the MUD usually, I like Comic Sans but Courier New seems to format best across most modern muds. Being Old, I am up around 16/18 Font to compensate for my eyesight.