Which monospaced font do you use?

#1

Post by hacjjjjjjjj » Mon, Dec 13, 2010, 3:21 PM UTC

Everybody here is a coder. So what monospaced font do you prefer and why ? At which point/size do you use it ?

Re: Which monospaced font do you use?

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Post by zacharyvoase » Mon, Dec 13, 2010, 3:29 PM UTC

Inconsolata, with varying sizes depending on my mental state. It’s free, pretty and legible.

Get it here: http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

Re: Which monospaced font do you use?

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Post by fdghfdgh » Mon, Dec 13, 2010, 3:34 PM UTC

If it's monospaced, it's fine. The emperor is naked.

Re: Which monospaced font do you use?

#4

Post by dutchrapley » Mon, Dec 13, 2010, 3:41 PM UTC

Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 10px on a 22" 1680x1050 - It's clean and crisp. Seems to be the only font I'm happy with on both Windows and Mac.

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1....

Re: Which monospaced font do you use?

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Post by lylejohnson » Mon, Dec 13, 2010, 3:50 PM UTC

dutchrapley wrote: post #4

Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 10px on a 22" 1680x1050 - It's clean and crisp. Seems to be the only font I'm happy with on both Windows and Mac. http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1....

My eyes prefer it at a slightly larger point size, but this is my choice as well.

Re: Which monospaced font do you use?

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Post by yuvadam » Mon, Dec 13, 2010, 3:53 PM UTC

Consolas / Lucida Console (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas)

Re: Which monospaced font do you use?

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Post by maximilianburke » Mon, Dec 13, 2010, 3:55 PM UTC

I use Consolas on Windows and Inconsolata on Linux, somewhere around the 9-10 pt size. Basically small enough so that I can get two 120-column+ editor windows side-by-side on a 1920px wide (24") display while big enough to not hurt the eyes over the course of a work day.

Re: Which monospaced font do you use?

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Post by geophile » Mon, Dec 13, 2010, 3:56 PM UTC

9x15.

I wish I could find this for OS X, but it's a bitmap font, and doesn't translate to a scalable font very easily.

Re: Which monospaced font do you use?

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Post by praptak » Mon, Dec 13, 2010, 4:01 PM UTC

I had my phase of looking for the coder's font. I spend some time spent looking at various monospaced fonts advertised as God's gift to coders. That time was, in retrospective, wasted. No font will provide anything more than maybe a few minutes of "yeah, this looks nice" feeling.

Nowadays I'm going with the defaults provided by IDEs, text editors, terminal emulators, etc. Choice of font is totally unimportant.

Re: Which monospaced font do you use?

#10

Post by garrickvanburen » Mon, Dec 13, 2010, 4:13 PM UTC

NotCourierSans Bold 14pt. http://kernest.com/fonts/notcouriersans-bold