Which monospaced font do you use?

4 points by hacjjjjjjjj 15y ago ↗ HN

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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zacharyvoase 15y ago ↗

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

fdghfdgh 15y ago ↗

If it's monospaced, it's fine. The emperor is naked.

dutchrapley 15y ago ↗

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....

lylejohnson 15y ago ↗

My eyes prefer it at a slightly larger point size, but this is my choice as well.

yuvadam 15y ago ↗

Consolas / Lucida Console (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas)

maximilianburke 15y ago ↗

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.

geophile 15y ago ↗

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.

praptak 15y ago ↗

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.

garrickvanburen 15y ago ↗

NotCourierSans Bold 14pt. http://kernest.com/fonts/notcouriersans-bold

cschmidt 15y ago ↗

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

zmmz 15y ago ↗

peep font: http://zevv.nl/play/code/zevv-peep/

If anybody has ported this to OSX, please share!

staunch 15y ago ↗

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.

Deadsunrise 15y ago ↗

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.

rix0r 15y ago ↗

I'm still pretty happy with Monaco, and on Windows I usually install Proggy when I install Vim.