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Paschal pointed to quite nice programming font. Personaly, I prefer (and use) a ProFont - it is more clear and condensed, and is available for preview and download here. It comes in most formats - as bitmat and truetype, as Windows, Mac, Linux and (even) Atari font.

Below you can see a short sample:

 

Posted: Jun 11 2004, 10:31 PM by michu | with 6 comment(s)
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kevin white said:

Gotta agree. ProFont rocks the house.
# June 11, 2004 6:16 PM

Frans Bouma said:

I fail to see why this font is so great. The 'a' is almost the same as the 'o'.

Lucida console font still is much better, too bad visual studio.net contains a bug with cursor repositioning after applying an intellisense action...
# June 12, 2004 5:18 AM

Justin Lovell said:

I agree with Frans that the font is not that great. I think Verdana at size 8pt does an excellent job.
# June 12, 2004 5:23 AM

Michal said:

Try to program with it for a while. Brackets are very clearly pronounciated, as well as commas etc. This font emphasises code structure. If 9pt is to small, then try a point larger. I like to see a lot on the screen at the same time. ProFont is very readible even at low sizes.

Verdana is a variable-width font and I couldn't use it for programming at all.

# June 12, 2004 5:29 AM

Glenn said:

Profont only works at 9pt. Size it larger and you get artifacts (well, that's what i experienced with ProFontWindows).

I still use it, because it rocks as a programming font. Sure, it's tiny. But with more lines of viewable code, why not? It's readable as well. Other small-fonts try to appear "larger" to be more readable, but that results in having to squeeze the other characters relatively as well. ProFont is well-proportioned in terms of readability.

Some drawbacks. I did wish they used the Sheldon version of "a", though the apple a is distinct enough. "%" is a bit squeezed, but distinct and readable, and as a tiny font, that can't be helped.

If you dislike tiny fonts, steer clear from this, but who knows? You may start liking tiny fonts after using ProFont.

# June 30, 2008 6:49 AM

Glenn said:

Ok, i've been using Profont for some time. Other than the "a" which could actually use Sheldon's version (even though Profont's "a" is still just readable and distinguishable from "o"), Profont lacks a clear distinguishing between upper and lower-case "X"...ie.  "X" vs "x" and several other alphabets. That's a big drawback here, particularly because the font-size for ProFont is very small, I wished the upper-case X (or other letters) was more distinguished with serifs, like what Courier New does. In fact, I made a typo with using small "x" over the big "X" in one of the my works. (eg. 320x240 vs 320X240). Due to Profont's small font-size, it doesn't come across as obvious immediately, and if I had used a larger font-base, i would definitely have spotted it at first instance.

So, is it perfect? Nope..can be improved. Small fonts have its disadvantages, but at least, I can scroll less with it.

# July 9, 2008 3:11 AM
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