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I love Inconsolata, but there's just one thing about it: the curly quotation marks. If you have that same quibble, good news: Inconsolata-dz[1]. Inconsolata with straight quotes. [1] http://nodnod.net/2009/feb/12/adding-straight-single-and-dou...
It's got to be 6x13, every single time. There really is no other choice. http://mirtchovski.com/p9/fonts/6x13.png
At work I have a larger display that sits farther away, and am running windows. Consolas is easier on the eyes there with two Emacs buffers side-by-side (at "108" Emacs font height).
I came across the 5x13 font (https://github.com/chneukirchen/5x13) and wanted to try it on my netbook. For some reason spaces come out as hatched boxes for me. The font itself looks promising but needs many changes (some of which I've figured enough out to make; but I don't know what to do with the space).
Droid Sans Mono makes for a great programming font. It’s got a bit of flair,
and stands out among the other monospace fonts I’ve listed, and its only
real flaw is the lack of a slashed zero.
Download link http://www.cosmix.org/software/files/DroidSansMonoSlashed.zi...
Arch Linux AUR link: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40418
I switched to PragmataPro[1] two months ago and love it. (Anti-aliasing turned off in iTerm2, with Vim and the Solarized colour scheme.[2]) When you stare at code all day, it's worth spending the time to make it as pleasant and legible an experience as you can. [1]: http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragmatapro.htm [2]: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
Solarized is nice, but PragmataPro is vomitous. There's such a thing as too compact, and man does that qualify. I use Consolas at 16pt, but I also do most of my work on a 2560x1600 monitor. Consolas at 14pt on my laptop.
I say this every time this discussion comes up but I do feel it bears repeating: I switched away from monospaced a while ago and I am never going back. I encourage you to try something like Verdana for a week just to see how it feels.
Would love to see a list of top 10 proportional programming fonts.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=615088
I don't wish to troll, but I see this a lot and I can't for the life of me figure out how anyone needs to give this any more thought than 'monospace, next question?', despite many explanations each time. Can someone shed some light on any advantages they feel are of a reasonably significant importance, and why? I mean, I can see plenty of advantages, but they're all so negligible they're not worth even the time it ta…
90% of it is really just how purdy it is. Picking the 'right' font will make you feel better when you stare at it all day. It's like how functionally, you could compose a 6000 word essay in comic sans, but really rather not. But in other cases, depending on your display size/setup, I guess there will be advantages to certain fonts. Now, mind you, the 10 on this list are all 'good' so you won't really see it between t…
hmm... thinking out loud.
I love Inconsolata, but there's just one thing about it: the curly quotation marks. If you have that same quibble, good news: Inconsolata-dz[1]. Inconsolata with straight quotes. [1] http://nodnod.net/2009/feb/12/adding-straight-single-and-dou...