Another nice choice, on the sans-serif side, is an APL font from dyalog (even if you're not an APL programmer). It has a certain old-school charm that pleases me.
New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
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Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#12Am I the only one who thinks that nothing comes close to Fixedsys (Excelsior) for programming?
if you can point out another, I'd try it, but I found this: http://fixedsys.moviecorner.de/?p=download&l=1 and it's only in bold. Hard to imagine using it.
Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#13I wonder how this stacks up with Microsoft's Consolas font. I've been using it as my default for a few years now.
I use Anonymous and I'm trying out Anonymous Pro now but Consolas is a fantastic font as well. Especially on windows, as it has great cleartype hinting. It also has a two-storey "a" and the slashed 0 going the correct way.
Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#14Every couple of months I try a new programming font, but I always go back to Inconsolata.
Me too. Here's a link for the unenlightened: http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#15I wonder how this stacks up with Microsoft's Consolas font. I've been using it as my default for a few years now.
I don't know, but I love Consolas so much that I'd be hard pressed to try anything else. I can set a small font size, lean back in my chair and still read it clearly without squinting.
Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#16This looks strange: In the 'all characters' tab, the Greek omega appears only with a stress, not in its regular form. Is this usual with fonts or a peculiarity of this one? I actually got excited to have a nice Greek-enabled font, but this threw me off.
Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#17Looks like there are some coders out there that actually know why having good typography is valid and don't just take whatever is out there as is usually the case.
Most modern programming fonts have good typography. In fact, most older programming fonts have good typography too (except for terminal, on Windows). Since the guys who make amazing typographic marvels are the same that bring us our fixed-width fonts, I'm not surprised.
Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#18Hrm, the images on the site look fuzzy, could not stand to look at that for long. The font is also a bit too…expressive? The round shapes are very prominent. There seems to be some disproportion to some letters which makes text look uneven to my eyes.
I use SGIscreen at 13px, no antialias.
Edit: not the best showcase but here is an old screenshot: http://files.kittensoft.org/vim_ruby.png
Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#19What pt size do people use for their Anti-Aliased programming fonts? I currently use a 10pt bitmapped font and everytime I try a font that is 'smoothed' it ends up looking like out of focus dreck at that size.
I'm curious whether I'm odd for using such a small typeface, noticing the effect of AA on such a small typeface, or caring about it. I can't decide which.
Re: New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
#20This looks strange: In the 'all characters' tab, the Greek omega appears only with a stress, not in its regular form. Is this usual with fonts or a peculiarity of this one? I actually got excited to have a nice Greek-enabled font, but this threw me off.
Looks like there's a "normal" one; take a look at the sixth line in the 'All Characters' tab.
I'm using it now and it's all good, too.