Thursday, December 23, 2004 8:16 AM Jan Tielens

My Favorite Font for Writing Code

Probably like every developer I want to have as much information as possible on my screen, especially when writing code. The chosen font is of course quite important; more text on your screen is better (as long as it’s readable). If you want to replace the default font, I recommend following website: http://www.proggyfonts.com/. Over there you can download a lot of programming fonts, for free! My favorite programming font is currently Opti Small:
opti small

Code in this font looks like this:

Comments

# S dot One heeft het over .NET » Programmeurs’ fonts

Wednesday, December 22, 2004 10:41 PM by TrackBack

S dot One heeft het over .NET » Programmeurs’ fonts

# re: My Favorite Font for Writing Code

Thursday, December 23, 2004 8:22 AM by Matt

Thanks for the link! I always wanted something a little nicer than the default font (I got spoiled by the nice fonts in Linux).

-Matt

# re: My Favorite Font for Writing Code

Thursday, December 23, 2004 8:38 AM by Charles Chen

http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/

This one is nice, too.

# re: My Favorite Font for Writing Code

Thursday, December 23, 2004 8:45 AM by Charles Chen

Upon further review, I have to give the nod to ProFont:

1. The horizontal lines on the capital "i" are more pronounced in ProfFont, which helps to differentiate between the lowercase "l".

2. The slashed zero (0) in ProFont is easier to see if you sit at a moderate distance from your monitor.

3. The delimiters ":" and ";" are emphasized in ProFonts, which make them _ideal_ for programming in languages like C/C++/Java/C#

4. Curly brace "{}" is "straighter" in ProFont. It's easier to distinguish between "{}" and "()".

But I guess I'm just overanalyzing :) Both are better than the standard fonts that install with Windows (with regards to writing code). MS should seriously, for the sake of convenience, include some fonts like these with VS2K5

# re: My Favorite Font for Writing Code

Saturday, December 25, 2004 1:03 AM by Jeff Atwood

Lucida Console and Courier New-- both default windows fonts-- aren't exactly chopped liver.

I am experimenting with Proggy Clean, personally, but I think all the fonts on the proggy page are quite good and ultimately it comes down to personal preference:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000157.html