Which font do you use for your source code editor?

[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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[tgrt]

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.)

[dlacuran]

I use Dina size 8.

[Jasmine2501]

I didn't like that either and I changed mine back to Fixedsys. I use a black background too. I have kinda bad eye strain if I don't. You will too if you don't lose that crazy white background soon. A monitor is not like a piece of paper, there's no reason why it should look like one. It has always bugged me that the results pane in Query Analyser and in the new SQL Management studio, is a fixed color.

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[Jasmine2501]

DarkStarPL wrote:

It was very weird to look at.

No, it was better for the eyes. Old skool monitors were always with a black background, and the text would be green, amber, or white. The white background was invented to make the word processor look more like a printed page. The harm it would do to everyone's eyes was not considered. I know that if I spend all day reading things on web sites or working with programs that have white backgrounds, that I will not be able to see very well anymore and you do not want to be on the road with me on the way home. What I would like is something that basically reverses white and black on my applications... all of them. There used to be an "inverse" setting on some monitors, but this one doesn't have that. If anyone knows of some kind of system tool I can install, which will turn things essentially negative, I would love that.

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[David Stone]

Ah. Well the CRT is going to be a problem. ClearType looks like crap on CRTs. Anyway, you can turn it on by following these instructions[^].

[Noel Paricollo 2]

I use Lucida Console. Why don't you try it? :)

[Donald S Wyman]

Has anyone tried "Bitstream Vera Sans Serif Mono" font. I find this font to be very usable and is available in italics, bold, and bold italics.

[SouthRoss]

Raize font. 10 or 12 pt (big, but I'm on a dual screen system...) Heard about this font at a borland conference once. Didn't like the default font in delphi and thought I'd try it http://www.raize.com/DevTools/Tools/RzFont.asp[^]

[Tim Yen]

courier new size 13 I hate small text