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M+ 1m vs Sudo

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When comparing M+ 1m vs Sudo, the Slant community recommends M+ 1m for most people. In the question“What are the best programming fonts?” M+ 1m is ranked 14th while Sudo is ranked 81st. The most important reason people chose M+ 1m is:

M+ M Type-1 (1M) was created to emphasize the balance of natural letterform and high legibility.

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M+ 1m
Sudo

Pros

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QuietParticle
Moses Holmström

Pro
High legibility

M+ M Type-1 (1M) was created to emphasize the balance of natural letterform and high legibility.

QuietParticle

Pro
17 different character-encodings available

  • ISO-8859-1, Latin-1 Western European
  • ISO-8859-2, Latin-2 Central European
  • ISO-8859-3, Latin-3 South European
  • ISO-8859-4, Latin-4 North European
  • ISO-8859-5, Latin/Cyrillic
  • ISO-8859-7, Latin/Greek
  • ISO-8859-8, Latin/Hebrew
  • ISO-8859-9, Latin-5 Turkish
  • ISO-8859-10, Latin-6 Nordic
  • ISO-8859-13, Latin-7 Baltic Rim
  • ISO-8859-14, Latin-8 Celtic
  • ISO-8859-15, Latin-9 A revision of 8859-1
  • ISO-8859-16, Latin-10 South-Eastern European
  • T1 Encoding, Default 8-bit encoding in many TeX installations
  • Windows-1252, Used by default in the legacy components of MS Windows
  • WGL4, Pan-European character set defined by Microsoft
  • VISCII, Vietnamese standard character set
mccauls7
Laura Kyle
QuietParticle

Pro
Permissive free software licence

This is a non-copyleft license that has minimal requirements regarding redistribution of the software.

mccauls7
Laura Kyle
QuietParticle

Pro
Five weights from Thin to Bold

The five font weights available are thin, light, regular, medium, and bold.

mccauls7
jk

Pro
Four styles available

Sudo has Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic styles available.

jk

Pro
Works well on Windows

Sudo is hand-hinted for good rendering on Windows.

jk

Pro
Good legibility

Different character categories are differentiated by height and alignment. Numbers are a line width smaller than capital letters, so there is no need for a dotted or slashed zero.

Cons

mccauls7
/usr/share

Con
Certain pseudo-graphic characters take two spaces

In this font, some pseudo-graphic characters can take up two spaces instead of one.

mccauls7
ideasman42

Con
Zero is not slashed or dotted

This makes for difficulty in distinguishing similar looking characters, such as the capital "O".

 

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