Which font do you use for your source code editor?

[Hans Dietrich]

Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, available here.

[jlwarlow]

codediscuss.com wrote:

I'm a fan of VC6 and I get used to the default font in the source code editor, which is fixedsys, size 12. But now I'm trying to use VS2005, I'm very uncomfortable about the new font and I always feel interrupted when coding just because of the font. (and also the speed.) So what's your choice?

Up until 4 months ago I was using VC6, now I'm using C# in 2003. I used the standard font in both cases, but I change the system default background colour from white to a mint green (195,220,195). A few people comment about it but it saves my eyes from straining by the end of the day! :-)

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[TrickyPhilbert]

I use WingDings - it makes coding kinda interesting ;)

[Pawel Krakowiak]

Not exactly font-related, but... I also use the defaults, I only made strings in code highlight to red on yellow bkg. I remember one guy, with which I worked, who was a hard/black/death metal fan and used to have Delphi IDE to his likeness - all black with white fonts. It was very weird to look at. ;)

[canOgrog]

Courier New is just THE font to program in! I only use MS VS .NET 2003 (a gift from university) and Macromedia Dreamweaver (and one from my beloved former employer) to program in and the colours make the world of difference. Actually... I don't know the font size, etc., but who has time to change it these days!

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[Phil Harding]

Until Consolas arrived, I used Lucida Console 8pt, although the Proggy ones look nice :)

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[Mike Dimmick]

Likewise. Courier New is just way too wide to read comfortably. The fact that you can get more characters per line with Lucida or Consolas is a side-effect. On CRTs without ClearType enabled, I use Lucida Console, because Consolas really doesn't work without ClearType on and I can't stand it on rubbish CRTs. On LCDs, with ClearType enabled, Lucida Console doesn't work so well, so I use Consolas.

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[James Curran]

Absolutely. I prefer Comic Sans MS (10pt). It eaiser on the eyes yet still allows longer lines in the resticted space (with docked side windows) Break the mono-spaced hegemony!

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[code_discuss]

but I find it seems to be blurred on my LCD, 1280*1024. any other font is much more qualitative. why?

[Marc Clifton]

codediscuss.com wrote:

but I find it seems to be blurred on my LCD, 1280*1024. any other font is much more qualitative.

You might need to turn on ClearType. It looked like crap for me until I did so. However, on a laptop I have, ClearType causes scrolling to crawl, so that wasn't an option, so I use a different font. Marc

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Try the Microsoft Clear Type Tuner[^]

[JimmyRopes]

A font that is very readable of course. :~

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[Dan Neely]

I had to turn off CT to make all my normal fonts not look like crap on my LCD. Turning it back for a single app isn't going to happen.

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[robwaw]

I use ProggyCleanSZCP. See http://www.proggyfonts.com/

[senylity]

Holy crap! I can't stand Comic Sans! Any time I see it, it makes me want to barf. Not really, but I really hate it when people use Comic Sans. X|

[jacksonb]

I will second this, I currently use ProggySquare in VS2003 at 11pt. It isn't as small, but I like it. (Then again it is the first one I found and I stopped searching at that point.)

[PIEBALDconsult]

Not sure, I think there was something like that I turned on recently and didn't like, so turned it back off. Where do I look? (I have 17" LCD at office, 17" CRT at home and I prefer to use the same setup on both.)