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BUT when using low-dpi monitors, very few get the hinting right, and bitmap (6x13 [1]) is king.
I use tamsyn ( http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn-font/ ) where I can. It's a bitmap font and looks great at small sizes. However since it's a bitmap font there's a few places that it can't be used.
My favorite is Source Code Pro by Adobe [1]. I use it on Mac OS X and Ubuntu. On Windows I have to use Consolas, because SCP does not render well in gVim for Windows (at least not on my system). Note that Source Code Pro does not have an Italic typeface yet. Italics are commonly used for source code comments and most editors will automatically emulate the shapes, often with poor results. Active development is current…
Just a minor nitpick: you are probably referring to an oblique style, not italic. Italic style implies a calligraphic handwriting look-alike, and is way more common with serif typefaces. Oblique style is just glyphs tilted to right, and I think that's what you meant here. No offense intended, of course.
In Emacs (GUI): Droid Sans Mono https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Droid+Sans+Mono In my terminal: Source Code Pro https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Source+Code+Pro
We also tried font-family: 'Andika', sans-serif; http://courseeplus.com/aboutus/
I am hugely anal about this topic and I've tried all fonts mentioned at the time of this post. In the end, Consolas has racked up the most miles during my coding and Proggy Tiny for the output console (allows you to fit quite a lot). Don't get me started on color theme.
> Proggy Tiny for the input console I would humbly suggest trying either MonteCarlo [1] or its derivative, Tamsyn [2]. Certain characters (like the "@" symbol) look much better in either of these fonts. [1] http://www.bok.net/MonteCarlo/ [2] http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn-font/
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Just a minor nitpick: you are probably referring to an oblique style, not italic. Italic style implies a calligraphic handwriting look-alike, and is way more common with serif typefaces. Oblique style is just glyphs tilted to right, and I think that's what you meant here. No offense intended, of course.
"No offense intended?" Even the system font selector uses "italic" ...