Your favorite source code font

Jorgen Sigvardsson

I like this[^] one. These[^] are nice too, but only if you dig small fonts. :)

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Mircea Grelus

Consolas font with Clear Type enabled.

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Dario Solera

I used MS Reference Sans Serif for years. Now I'm trying Consolas... I really like MS Reference Sans Serif, 8pt. I really dislike Consolas.

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Graham Bradshaw

From the web site: All characters have the same width, like old typewriters, making it a good choice for personal and business correspondence.

Huh? I know retro's in fashion right now, but come on... Who writes business letters in a non-proportional typeface these days?

Ravi Bhavnani

Lucida Console, 9pt. /ravi

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Jorgen Sigvardsson

Sans Serif is a proportional font. You use that for programming...?

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Mircea Grelus

Dario Solera wrote:

I really dislike Consolas.

Have you tried Consolas with Clear Type enabled? That what my first reaction too when I tried Consolas: Huh? Now who the hell writes code using this crap?!. Then I found out it is supposed to be used with Clear Type enabled. Of course this means it's kinda build for the TFT monitors. Using a CRT for Clear Type sucks, and Consolas definitely looks nasty.

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Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:

You use that for programming...?

Of course. Why not?

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Dario Solera

Mircea Grelus wrote:

Have you tried Consolas with Clear Type enabled?

Yes, but I use a CRT monitor.

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Mircea Grelus

Ahhh, now that's why it's nasty. I'm sure you'll love it on a TFT.

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Dario Solera

Mircea Grelus wrote:

Ahhh, now that's why it's nasty

Well, actually I don't think it's a nasty font. The fact is that I don't like monospaced fonts in general...

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Jorgen Sigvardsson

Proportional fonts doesn't provide the same visual cues as a non-proportional font does. Lines of the same number of characters does not have the same visual lengths...

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Super Lloyd

I think monospaced font provide a better development experience. It enable to visually grasp the nesting level of all your code block instantly!

peterchen

ClearType looks like crap on my (TFT!) monitor, I don't know why. I tried anyway, but what looks bad looks bad.

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peterchen

Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:

These[^] are nice too, but only if you dig small fonts.

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Mircea Grelus

peterchen wrote:

ClearType looks like crap on my (TFT!) monitor

Well that's because the different technologies of manufacturing TFT. But there's a solution. It's called Clear Type Tunner. Just go to this page[^] and download it. It will let you customize the settings for Clear Type.

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Dario Solera

Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:

Lines of the same number of characters does not have the same visual lengths

Yes. And then?

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Jorgen Sigvardsson

I'm my opinion, it's easier to spot syntax errors if I have those visual cues.

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Jeremy Falcon

peterchen wrote:

ClearType looks like crap on my (TFT!) monitor, I don't know why. I tried anyway, but what looks bad looks bad.

It's just another example of MS copying off of Apple, but they did a lousy job with it. And yeah, I had to. :-D

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