Programming Fonts
Programmers have very particular font needs. A font for programming must be monospaced, extremely readable, and must sharply distinguish between similar characters, such as capital O and zero and the number 1, capital I, and lowercase L. In addition, good programming fonts allow you to view more lines of code on screen at once.
Fonts:
- Courier, Courier New, Terminal, and FixedSys are common fonts people tend to use for programming. However, there are many better alternatives (though, Terminal at small point sizes is pretty good).
- Profont and Sheldon
- Proggy fonts (I used to use Proggy Square, and now I use Proggy Tiny. Highly recommended.)
- MonteCarlo - what's nice about this font is that it has a bold version, so editors that let you bold keywords and stuff don't have to fake it (which often results in misaligned text)
- Triskweline (A clean, sans serif version of Courier)
- The Dina programming font looks excellent.
- Two original fonts by DamienG, Envy Code A and Envy Code B.
- Oloron (or here) (costs money)
- Console fonts (cost money)
- Pragmata looks like an excellent font, but costs 90 euros
- Anonymous
- A programmer's font for Macintosh. I don't have a Mac, so I haven't tried it.
- Neep and Modd - only for X Windows
- I've also seen Andale Mono (download from SourceForge here or from here) and Lucida Console recommended frequently.
- Bitstream Vera fonts (the DejaVu fonts are based on the Bitstream fonts but contain more international characters).
- You can get some other fonts, such as Monaco (for Windows!) here.
- Also, MPW Font, similar to Monaco, can be downloaded here. Macintosh only.
- HVFont - "high visibility fixed width bitmap fonts". HVRaster is the version for Windows. [ if only the site was as readable as the font - ed ]
- Raize Font
- This programmer font didn't work for me.
- Linux/UNIX console fonts for Windows
- "Programmer's Font 2.0" for Mac Classic
- You'd think this font is a joke, but it's not. Does anyone besides the author think this is a good font for programming?
- Luc[as] de Groot's monospaced fonts I've seen recommended
- Pixelfonts
- Monospaced Fonts from the Scriptorium. Some nice looking and inexpensive fonts. However, I'm not sure how well they'll work for code on screen compared to other fonts listed on this page. Though, that's not really their primary purpose.
- Some of these minifonts might work well for programming.
- A few of these bitmap fonts from BitmapMania might work well for programming (specifically, the "mini" font), though most wont.
- Same goes for these bitmap fonts
- I've had the Terminus font recommended.
- Kourier and Ksans feature distinguishable Oo0 etc., and bold punctuation for older eyes.
- Microsoft has a new programmer's font called Consolas coming out in 2006.
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Page last edited: February 18, 2006 (utc)
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