Top Programming Fonts

#1

Post by voxcogitatio » Sun, Jan 17, 2010, 9:21 PM UTC

Re: Top Programming Fonts

#2

Post by telemachos » Sun, Jan 17, 2010, 9:35 PM UTC

If you love Incolsolata, but hate the curl of the quotes (single and double), see here: http://nodnod.net/2009/feb/12/adding-straight-single-and-dou...

(It's posted in the comments to that article, but it may not jump out at people.)

Re: Top Programming Fonts

#3

Post by ComputerGuru » Sun, Jan 17, 2010, 10:14 PM UTC

Consolas has pretty much overtaken all the rest in most of the reviews these days. It's a great font (esp. on OS X)!

Re: Top Programming Fonts

#4

Post by b3b0p » Sun, Jan 17, 2010, 11:01 PM UTC

I love DejaVu Sans Mono:

http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Which is a variant of Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:

http://www.gnome.org/fonts/

However, right now, my new favorite font is Menlo that came with Snow Leopard. It's another variant of Bitstream Vera and it seems to work much better at smaller font sizes. Which is great for limited screen sizes (such as 1280x800 on a smaller laptop).

Re: Top Programming Fonts

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Post by rbanffy » Sun, Jan 17, 2010, 11:05 PM UTC

b3b0p wrote: post #4

I love DejaVu Sans Mono: http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Which is a variant of Bitstream Vera Sans Mono: http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ However, right now, my new favorite font is Menlo that came with Snow Leopard. It's another variant of Bitstream Vera and it seems to work much better at smaller font sizes. Which is great for limited screen sizes (such as 1280x800 on a smaller laptop).

Menlo looks nice. There is a comparison between both at http://8.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kozenpQvKP1qzus90o1_500.png

Re: Top Programming Fonts

#6

Post by rbanffy » Sun, Jan 17, 2010, 11:07 PM UTC

I have been using Envy Code R. From time to time, I change my font. I guess I need some variety.

I have a pet project of reproducing the IBM 3270 terminal font. I love those 6's and 9's.

Re: Top Programming Fonts

#7

Post by merraksh » Sun, Jan 17, 2010, 11:31 PM UTC

I have used Schumacher Clean for ages, and find it awesome. Not sure it's available on Mac/Win, but it's very readable and clean (...). I mostly write LaTeX and C/C++ in Emacs on dark grey background.

Re: Top Programming Fonts

#8

Post by yurifury » Mon, Jan 18, 2010, 12:05 AM UTC

I am a fan of Terminus. Very readable, crisp and works on both Linux and Win32 machines.

http://www.is-vn.bg/hamster/

Re: Top Programming Fonts

#9

Post by mechanical_fish » Mon, Jan 18, 2010, 12:06 AM UTC

I finally got around to spending a couple of hours configuring emacs 23 for the Mac. If I had fully realized that it supported native fonts now, and that Inconsolata would make me this happy, I'd have upgraded months ago.

Re: Top Programming Fonts

#10

Post by davepeck » Mon, Jan 18, 2010, 12:13 AM UTC

I tend to prefer Consolas to Inconsolata. Consolas' glyphs feel like they have more uniform thickness throughout.