Beautiful fixed-width fonts for OSX

Wow, this is the ugliest font I have ever seen. I do like the color-less syntax highlighting, though.<p>Also, Haskell looks nicer when you translate things like -&#62; to →, \ to λ, and so on.<p>But really, both of these things would look nicer on high-resolution displays. When can I get a 1200dpi 24" monitor? (In the mean time, you can pry hinting and subpixel anti-aliasing from my cold, dead eyes. It's a necessity on the limited hardware that's currently available.)

I'd recommend Consolas.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas</a><p>OS X Install → <a href="http://www.wezm.net/2009/03/install-consolas-mac-osx/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wezm.net/2009/03/install-consolas-mac-osx/</a><p>With slightly more effort it can be installed on linux.

This makes me happy.<p>I tried to make 6x13 for OS X a while back: <a href="http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/6x13_redux" rel="nofollow">http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/6x13_redu...</a><p>Then I discovered the full set of characters (er, codepoints?) supported and pulled the emergency brake on that idea!<p><a href="http://rasher.dk/rockbox/fonts/misc/6x13-full.png" rel="nofollow">http://rasher.dk/rockbox/fonts/misc/6x13-full.png</a>

My current favorite monospace font is Incosolata <a href="http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html</a> It's an amazingly legible font and looks great and small and large font sizes.

I use misc fixed in a smaller size on osx in mrxvt (in X11 of course). Anti-aliasing turned off. 256 color goodness in terminal emacs, yummy. This terminal is incredibly fast (especially with anti-aliasing off), it'll scroll through a big file in the blink of an eye. I dislike having to wait when massive input is scrolling through a terminal. I totally love this setup, only caveat is that I need to attach a mouse to be able to paste into x11.<p>Here's a link to my .mrxvtrc file <a href="http://gist.github.com/277956" rel="nofollow">http://gist.github.com/277956</a>

I like the monospaced font (I think it's called "Monospace") that comes with Gnome. And I have a version of Luxi Mono that has a dot in the middle of the 0 so that it's easier to spot it, but I haven't been using it much.<p>They are both Mac-friendly, AFAIK. Never tried to move them over to a Mac, but they do look good on Gnome/X.<p>Currently I am using "Envy Code R" as my monospaced font of choice.<p>And I would love to get screenshots of IBM's 3270 series terminals so I could draw that font as scalable fonts. I love its 6's and 9's.

I switched over to the Bistream Vera family ( <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Vera" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Vera</a> ) since it looked decent and had bold/oblique for the monospace font. I also switched some of my other applications over to use the variable width fonts in the family for consistency.

I've been a big fan of Droid Sans Mono for a while now. My preferred coding font: <a href="http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/droid-font-family-courtesy-of-google-ascender" rel="nofollow">http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/droid-font-family-courtes...</a>

A font only a mother could love.

Terminus is what works for me. Still very clear and nice on the laptop screen. <a href="http://fractal.csie.org/~eric/wiki/Terminus_font" rel="nofollow">http://fractal.csie.org/~eric/wiki/Terminus_font</a>