Font Survey: 30 of the Best Programming Fonts.

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by prakash • 18 years ago

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arien• 18 years ago

I personally prefer Courier (although 11-12 points is excessive IMO). It's available in most systems, it's perfectly clear with or without ClearType and it has fixed width. Perfect.

jsmcgd• 18 years ago

Kind of related: I've settled on ori1Uni, size 16 as my default font for Firefox. I find it makes non marked up HTML much much easier to read.

artificer• 18 years ago

I just love the new Microsoft Consolas font that comes bundled in Windows Vista. "Pragmata" is also a very nice and professional font that is a bit expensive though, and misses support for many languages other than english. For me, the definitive feature that distinguishes a simple monospaced font from a font adequate for programming is the slashed (or dotted) zero that separates it clearly from capital "O".

qwph• 18 years ago

Being able to distinguish 1 from l is also a benefit.

sc• 18 years ago

Deja Vu Sans Mono renders wonderfully on OS X.

truebosko• 18 years ago

I love Consolas at work but for Linux a great alternative is Inconsolata .. especially if you enable the smooth rendering

Font Survey: 30 of the Best Programming Fonts.

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