Fonts for Programmers?
can [someone] suggest a good typeface for programmers 'who sit in front of monitors for 30 hours a day.'
Ohhhh, I’ve looked for alternates to Courier New, but hadn’t found one I liked enough to change in my editors. I downloaded Anonymous, the 4 Proggy fonts, RzFont, a few Linux core fonts, ProFont and Sheldon. I looked for the Vera Sans fonts that were mentioned, but I didn’t find a link to download them on Bitstream’s page. Oh, okay, I see them here. If you want any of the Microsoft Core Fonts that aren’t available through MS anymore, including Andale Mono, you can check this site.
So yeah, now I have a few to pick from. :giggle:
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I downloaded the proggy and it is so nice to look at another font. I’ve already set my 2 main editors to use the new font here at work, where I program visual basic 8 hours every day. Thank you so much for the links.
Posted by: Rayne | November 21, 2003 11:22 AM
Actually, I’ve always been kind of partial to Terminal. I don’t know why...it’s just a nice, clean, sans-serif font. I like it.
Posted by: Meredith | November 21, 2003 03:24 PM
I’ve been looking for a good coding font as well, with very limited success. I like Andale Mono, except for the fact that it puts a dot in the middle of zero’s. I tried all the ones you linked to above, but they all had something that just didn’t feel quite right.
Ah, well. Maybe someday we’ll find the perfect coding font.
Posted by: milbertus | November 21, 2003 04:52 PM
I love the fonts! =) Thanks for the link.
Posted by: Sue | November 21, 2003 07:29 PM
Oh! NEW FONTS!!! I can’t WAIT! Thank you for sharing the links - I
new fonts!
Posted by: Christine | November 23, 2003 11:29 AM
Try http://www.procon.com.au/Fonts.htm for the HVRaster and HVEdit (TrueType) fonts. Best Delphi, VB and VC programmers fonts I’ve seen. I use the HVRaster font in VB, Java anc C++ coding and wouldn’t go back to old "spider web" fonts again.
Posted by: Al Kocass | August 2, 2004 07:40 PM