What is the best font for programming?

[Tomas Brennan]

Heh! :-D Some of us suffer from myopia :^) and it makes reading easier, so yeah, indirectly, it makes us better programmers - ok...which is better looking programmer, one stressed out from squinting at a very unclear font looking like a .... (insert words of your choice), the other looking relaxed and reading with ease??? :laugh:

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[Christian Graus]

Well, sure. BUT, there's a ton of fonts out there, which would satisfy that problem. Just setting the colour scheme and font size, will do that. To suggest there's an optimal programming font, is the height of ignorance.

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[Anders Molin]

I always use Consolas @ 9pt.

- Anders

[Shog9 0]

I use multiple fonts. Italic comments and bold operators make code faster to read. And I believe strongly in reading a lot of code as quickly as possible... As for which fonts... Pick something that looks good to you. Why on earth would you trust someone else's subjective opinions over what your own eyes tell you? Personally, I dislike using fonts where l looks like 1 or 0 looks like O, but YMMV...

[swjam]

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[PIEBALDconsult]

Oh no, not again. Survey Results : What is your favourite programming font?[^]

[Lost User]

I just use the visual studio option that makes it look and feel like version 6. My work is mostly linux there days and more and more I'm using vi to edit and just building in VS occasionally to make sure it still builds with their crappy c++ compiler.

Movember![^]

[Vikram A Punathambekar]

I know it's fashionable to pillory CSS and all that, but he just asked for good fonts suited for programming (least eye strain, crossed 0s, that sort of thing). Nowhere does he claim that using this one true font will make him a gangsta coder.

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[Vikram A Punathambekar]

Consolas, and I know I'm going out on a limb here, but I use 15 pt.

Turns out I use 14 pt.

(My monitor is only 17 inches, and I use 1280x1024).

Cheers, Vikram. (Cracked not one CCC, but two!)

modified on Friday, November 27, 2009 2:36 AM

[Christian Graus]

He's an idiot. And he's taken to creating you tube videos that slander me. "I'm looking for something really really great that is specifically designed for programming. " This is ridiculous, I am sorry. The font that suits you, is a personal choice. There are no fonts created FOR programming, or universally the BEST for programming.

Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

[Christian Graus]

This was exactly my point. There is no magical 'programming font'. He needs to choose something he likes.

Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

[Shog9 0]

Christian Graus wrote:

He's an idiot. And he's taken to creating you tube videos that slander me.

Honestly... You should probably stop responding to him... ...My responses are way better. ;-P

[Shog9 0]

Christian Graus wrote:

He needs to choose something he likes.

Or Comic Sans. Someone here must be using that...

[FyreWyrm]

What is the best food? pizza, no spaghetti, well either I guess What is the best drink? Dr. Pepper, no questions about it What clothing and shoes are best? Anything made by Wrangler and Justin boots What haircut? high-and-tight What animal? a horse... and a dog Those weren't so hard.

Don't blame me. I voted for Chuck Norris.

[Shog9 0]

FyreWyrm wrote:

Anything made by Wrangler

Pockets are too small.

[CaptainSeeSharp]

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

Consolas, and I know I'm going out on a limb here, but I use 15 pt. (My monitor is only 17 inches, and I use 1280x1024).

Thats crazy. I think I'm stuck on Terminal 10pt. It isn't perfect, but other fonts just don't have that special look to them.

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[Judah Gabriel Himango]

Wow. I use Consolas 12pt here. I thought that was big.

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[Vikram A Punathambekar]

Christian Graus wrote:

And he's taken to creating you tube videos that slander me.

Maybe if you hadn't indulged him all these years, he would have just ignored you? Besides, this is your response - ridiculing his questions?

Christian Graus wrote:

The font that suits you, is a personal choice.

Yes, and he wants to know which ones people use so he can try them and pick one he likes. Do you also ridicule the people who ask for other people's favourite music players, text editors, etc?

Christian Graus wrote:

There are no fonts created FOR programming, or universally the BEST for programming.

As above. Also, I'd say Consolas was created for programming.

Christian Graus wrote:

He's an idiot.

On that we agree. :)

Cheers, Vikram. (Cracked not one CCC, but two!)

[Vikram A Punathambekar]

Screen size and resolution?

Cheers, Vikram. (Cracked not one CCC, but two!)

[Shog9 0]

Judah Himango wrote:

I thought that was big.

It is! When I use Consolas, I use 10pt. I prefer 10.5pt, but that doesn't seem to work in VS. Consolas is a very bulky font. Pretty enough, at larger sizes, and with good anti-aliasing... But bulky.