The Best Font for Writing Code
Jan 19

The Best Font for Writing Code

Finding the Best Programmer’s Font: I can’t say I’ve ever put this much thought into it. I’ll admit that the winning font is quite attractive.

Becoming frustrated with source code not aligning in my favorite source editor I decided to hunt for the best font. In particular, I began to hunt down the available fixed-width or monospaced fonts.
by Deane   January 19, 2005 2:21 PM    |   Follow Gadgetopia on Twitter

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Richard Richard
by Richard,   January 19, 2005 11:47 PM  

Cool link. I'm always interested in clean programming fonts. Personally I use ProggyClean. Here are some other links you might find useful on this same topic. There might be some overlap too.

http://www.proggyfonts.com http://forevergeek.com/geekresources/fontsfor_programmers.php http://typographi.com/000744.php http://keithdevens.com/wiki/ProgrammerFonts

Joe Joe
by Joe,   January 20, 2005 9:23 AM  

The winning font is from the Bitstream Vera family. It's a very popular font in Open Source circles since the font is under a free license. The non-mono versions of the font are also excellent. I've been using them for most of my time on Linux.

yoche yoche
by yoche,   January 30, 2005 9:22 PM  

Call me dumb or whatever but could you name any reason why all the programmers fonts have to be monospaced? I have to admit I've been working with Verdana (yes!) in my favourit editors for quite a time and it is still a delight for my courier-massacred eyes.

jsa jsa
by jsa,   March 17, 2005 9:19 AM  

Mono makes the indents line up and gives a visual grid. I just cannot stand courier's serifs. All those extra pixels! ACK! Thx for the proggy font suggestion. I'm going to give ProggyCleanSZBP.ttf a try.

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