davidnunez.com » coding http://www.davidnunez.com David Nunez lives, wonders, tinkers and builds in Boston. Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:51:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Large Letters for greater creativity http://www.davidnunez.com/2008/12/11/large-letters-for-greater-creativity/ http://www.davidnunez.com/2008/12/11/large-letters-for-greater-creativity/#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:10:05 +0000 davidnunez http://www.davidnunez.com/blog/2008/12/11/large-letters-for-greater-creativity/ I’ve recently upped the font sizes in Textmate and the terminal.

It makes me feel like my code is more beautiful, somehow.

Maybe it’s because whenever I watch a brilliant hacker give a technical talk, they put their screens up on the projector and live-code with super-large type.

Perhaps it reduces the amount of stuff that fits on my screen to a more elegant “that which matters.” Too much text via smaller font makes it difficult to focus.

It’s a cognitive hack for creativity.


Terminal — bash — 80x24-1.jpg

demo.rb — smart-lab.jpg

Monoco 18pt – Vibrant Ink color scheme for Textmate

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