Programming With Proportional Fonts?

theodp writes "Betty or Veronica? Mary Ann or Ginger? Proportional or Monospaced? There's renewed interest in an old blog post by Maas-Maarten Zeeman, in which M-MZ made the case for programming with proportional fonts, citing studies that show proportional fonts can be read 14% faster than fixed-width fonts. Try it for a couple of weeks, he suggests, and you might like it too. Nowadays, Lucida Grande is M-MZ's font of choice on OS X, and he uses Lucida Sans on Windows. Helvetica, anyone?"pa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/01/17/0715219/Programming-With-Proportional-Fonts?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/01/17/0715219"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/01/17/0715219/Programming-With-Proportional-Fonts?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ged6z0l5nwYSdU-N7UZ6UOOHdRo/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ged6z0l5nwYSdU-N7UZ6UOOHdRo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ged6z0l5nwYSdU-N7UZ6UOOHdRo/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ged6z0l5nwYSdU-N7UZ6UOOHdRo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/yaaJf4TqhE8" height="1" width="1"/

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