Poll: What is your favorite programming font? • Hacker News Board

The only font I can find that is both consistently readable at small sizes and doesn't drive me stark raving mad with Lovecraftian shapes is Inconsolata-g. And I hate Inconsolata-g.

Consolas is simply offensive, and Proggy has got to be the ugliest thing I have seen in my life.

Clean is moderately tolerable (and marginally better than Inconsolata-g on most entities) despite being Lovecraftian, but it has so many broken characters and interferes so badly with my graphics driver (terminals on Linux under some versions of the `nvidia` driver behave very badly when using a bitmap font), that I can't use it.

I'm still looking for a font that doesn't make me want to raze several small towns.

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by malk_zameth » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 9:53 AM UTC

Dina, by far the best programming font ever, highly lisible even at 8pt, ever char is different, vertical alignement is taken using prog languages into mind, it has it all

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by thiagoc » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 11:52 AM UTC

char101 wrote: post #59

M+mn Sample: http://i.imgur.com/cJaXfe5.png http://mplus-fonts.sourceforge.jp/

Nice one. I'm using it right now. You use the regular or light version?

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by chrisdl » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 2:23 PM UTC

Source Code Pro

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Post by zachlatta » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 3:35 PM UTC

icodestuff wrote: post #15

Kinda odd to not include Menlo, the default font in Xcode. Not sure that's my favorite (and I've gotten a lot less picky about programming fonts over the years) but it seems an odd omission.

Yup. Menlo is awesome.

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by intrazoo » Fri, Jul 05, 2013, 6:01 AM UTC

jjs wrote: post #31

intrazoo wrote: post #16

I like my deja vu sans but I wish it had a slashed zero.

Try the Droid Sans Mono variant with slashed zero. http://blog.cosmix.org/2009/10/27/a-slashed-zero-droid-sans-...

I have (and I just did again). Maybe I should give it more time to warm up to it? If I can't get a slashed zero deja vu sans mono, I will just have to buy a hi-res screen so the zero dot is less ugly (should do anyway).

So, before submitting, I found a slashed version (saved) and I am now happy! I forget source, but can email to people who want.

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Post by Vitaly » Fri, Jul 05, 2013, 6:29 AM UTC

Source Code Pro from Adobe: https://github.com/adobe/source-code-pro