The Best Programming Fonts

Number one is Arial? Way to blow all credibility right up front.

I guess platform/rendering engine difference should be taken into consideration when choosing the "best" fonts. Same font is usually rendered very differently on different platforms with anti-aliasing on. For example, Monaco looks fantastic on Mac, but just so-so on Windows/Linux. (Though for bitmap fonts this seems not a real issue.)

Don't use Vera, use DejaVu. It's the same font, but with many more Unicode characters. (λ looks much nicer after I made the switch.)<p>Link: <a href="http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page" rel="nofollow">http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page</a>

Terminus. LispM font.<p>Smoothed blended TrueType programming fonts are for clove-cigarette-smoking nancy boys.

How about the X11 "fixed" font and my favorite - "terminus"?<p>Fixed, by the way is the font you see when you start xterm in most environments. Hold Ctrl and the RMB while the mouse cursor is in a xterm window and you can see it in different sizes

I am a big fan of Anonymous, it is currently my emacs code font.<p><a href="http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymous.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymous.html</a>

It's not mentioned, but I <i>love</i> Pragmata[1]. It's expensive, but gorgeous and very usable. And I stand by what I said about it earlier: <a href="http://twitter.com/yan_i/status/1442859670" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/yan_i/status/1442859670</a><p>[1] <a href="http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragma.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragma.htm</a>

++ for Dina. It's an excellent programming font and looks great even at 8pt. It allows you to see much more code per screen.

Arial? I've tried using non monospace fonts for code. They've never worked out for me.

Espresso Mono gets my vote nowadays. Prior to that, I was using Consolas for the prior year or so.<p>I <i>think</i> I used Monaco or Inconsolata before that. Can't really remember.

I used to like Monaco, but its parentheses are kind of annoying if you program in a lisp like language, or if you need to nest a lot of parentheses. Now im using dejavu sans mono.

my favorite programming font (and I think it is a pity that the article doesn't mention it): Envy Code R (<a href="http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-coding-font-released" rel="nofollow">http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-cod...</a>)<p>I just love this font! it's such a beautiful piece of font-design and I only can recommend you to try it out!

I like triskweline <a href="http://www.netalive.org/tinkering/triskweline/" rel="nofollow">http://www.netalive.org/tinkering/triskweline/</a>

inconsolata<p>droid-sans mono

I'm perfectly happy with Courier New. Most editors on windows use it by default and I never felt the need to change it.

I've been happily using Proggy Clean for a while. It's even surprisingly readable printed at low point size.

Grunties's comment FTW. "monospace good, non-monospace bad, all other considerations irrelevant. Next?"