Which monospaced font do you use?
Everybody here is a coder. So what monospaced font do you prefer and why ? At which point/size do you use it ?
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I had my phase of looking for the coder's font. I spend some time spent looking at various monospaced fonts advertised as God's gift to coders. That time was, in retrospective, wasted. No font will provide anything more than maybe a few minutes of "yeah, this looks nice" feeling.
Nowadays I'm going with the defaults provided by IDEs, text editors, terminal emulators, etc. Choice of font is totally unimportant.
Nowadays I'm going with the defaults provided by IDEs, text editors, terminal emulators, etc. Choice of font is totally unimportant.
I use Consolas on Windows and Inconsolata on Linux, somewhere around the 9-10 pt size. Basically small enough so that I can get two 120-column+ editor windows side-by-side on a 1920px wide (24") display while big enough to not hurt the eyes over the course of a work day.
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 10px on a 22" 1680x1050 - It's clean and crisp. Seems to be the only font I'm happy with on both Windows and Mac.
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1....
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1....
My eyes prefer it at a slightly larger point size, but this is my choice as well.
I was using inconsolata at 12 but last week I moved to Menlo and I think I have a new favorite.
Menlo it's really similar to Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.
Menlo it's really similar to Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.
Inconsolata, with varying sizes depending on my mental state. It’s free, pretty and legible.
Get it here: http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
Get it here: http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
I use Pragmata 11pt. Yes, it costs money, but given the years I've looked at this font, I think it works out to be pretty cheap :-)
http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragma.htm
http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragma.htm
Ubuntu's "Monospace" at 12 on a Dell 27" 2560x1440 monitor. I love it. I've tried just about every free monospaced font but still prefer this one.
NotCourierSans Bold 14pt. http://kernest.com/fonts/notcouriersans-bold
Consolas / Lucida Console (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas)
9x15.
I wish I could find this for OS X, but it's a bitmap font, and doesn't translate to a scalable font very easily.
I wish I could find this for OS X, but it's a bitmap font, and doesn't translate to a scalable font very easily.
I'm still pretty happy with Monaco, and on Windows I usually install Proggy when I install Vim.
peep font: http://zevv.nl/play/code/zevv-peep/
If anybody has ported this to OSX, please share!
If anybody has ported this to OSX, please share!
If it's monospaced, it's fine. The emperor is naked.