What is the best font for programming?
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I've just rediscovered the beauty of color on black for programming environment. More information can be expressed with this type of color scheme. I like how numbers, strings, operators, identifiers all have a unique color that makes things much easier to sort through. The massive reduction of strain on the eyes is good also. Now I am looking for the best font to go with it. For those who customize their programming environment, what font do you use? What color scheme do you use? What is the best? I kind of like fonts that remind me of programming in DOS, however fixedsys and terminal are too big. I'm looking for something really really great that is specifically designed for programming.
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I've just rediscovered the beauty of color on black for programming environment. More information can be expressed with this type of color scheme. I like how numbers, strings, operators, identifiers all have a unique color that makes things much easier to sort through. The massive reduction of strain on the eyes is good also. Now I am looking for the best font to go with it. For those who customize their programming environment, what font do you use? What color scheme do you use? What is the best? I kind of like fonts that remind me of programming in DOS, however fixedsys and terminal are too big. I'm looking for something really really great that is specifically designed for programming.
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I've just rediscovered the beauty of color on black for programming environment. More information can be expressed with this type of color scheme. I like how numbers, strings, operators, identifiers all have a unique color that makes things much easier to sort through. The massive reduction of strain on the eyes is good also. Now I am looking for the best font to go with it. For those who customize their programming environment, what font do you use? What color scheme do you use? What is the best? I kind of like fonts that remind me of programming in DOS, however fixedsys and terminal are too big. I'm looking for something really really great that is specifically designed for programming.
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This is hilarious. You think your font choice is going to make you a better programmer ?
CaptainSeeSharp wrote:
I'm looking for something really really great that is specifically designed for programming.
:wtf:
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.
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.
Cheers, Vikram. (Cracked not one CCC, but two!)
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I've just rediscovered the beauty of color on black for programming environment. More information can be expressed with this type of color scheme. I like how numbers, strings, operators, identifiers all have a unique color that makes things much easier to sort through. The massive reduction of strain on the eyes is good also. Now I am looking for the best font to go with it. For those who customize their programming environment, what font do you use? What color scheme do you use? What is the best? I kind of like fonts that remind me of programming in DOS, however fixedsys and terminal are too big. I'm looking for something really really great that is specifically designed for programming.
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
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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.
Cheers, Vikram. (Cracked not one CCC, but two!)
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.
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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...
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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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.
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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.
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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
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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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
Wow. I use Consolas 12pt here. I thought that was big.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
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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 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!)
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Wow. I use Consolas 12pt here. I thought that was big.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
Screen size and resolution?
Cheers, Vikram. (Cracked not one CCC, but two!)
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Wow. I use Consolas 12pt here. I thought that was big.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
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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.
Ahhh..screw it. I'm going to buy stock in monitor manufacturers and laugh all the way to the bank at you fools. ;)
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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 wrote:
There are no fonts created FOR programming
http://www.proggyfonts.com/[^]
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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I've just rediscovered the beauty of color on black for programming environment. More information can be expressed with this type of color scheme. I like how numbers, strings, operators, identifiers all have a unique color that makes things much easier to sort through. The massive reduction of strain on the eyes is good also. Now I am looking for the best font to go with it. For those who customize their programming environment, what font do you use? What color scheme do you use? What is the best? I kind of like fonts that remind me of programming in DOS, however fixedsys and terminal are too big. I'm looking for something really really great that is specifically designed for programming.
Take a look at http://www.proggyfonts.com/[^]. The site has many good fonts for programming. I use Consolas though.
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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I've just rediscovered the beauty of color on black for programming environment. More information can be expressed with this type of color scheme. I like how numbers, strings, operators, identifiers all have a unique color that makes things much easier to sort through. The massive reduction of strain on the eyes is good also. Now I am looking for the best font to go with it. For those who customize their programming environment, what font do you use? What color scheme do you use? What is the best? I kind of like fonts that remind me of programming in DOS, however fixedsys and terminal are too big. I'm looking for something really really great that is specifically designed for programming.
I've got both Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Studio set to Consonas. It's a very easy to look at font, and as weird as it sounds, with ClearType enabled, it's really rather nice to look at. I've actually been more productive using this font.
Jamie Nordmeyer
Portland, Oregon, USA
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