Programmers need a crisp, clear font so they can distinguish between similar characters. What makes for a good coding font? The first criteria is the font needs to be a monospaced typeface. This means the characters have equal widths or a fixed pitch. Next, the similar characters need to be easily distingishable such as 1,I,i (one, capital I, lower case i), 0,O,o (zero, capital O, lower case o), as well as clear special characters such as parenthesis, brackets, braces, quotes, and punctuation.
Proggy Clean font, it contains a dotted zero.
1. ProFont
- author: tobias-jung.de download: Windows | Mac | Linux
2. Proggy Clean
- author: proggyfonts.com download: Windows | Mac
3. Envy Code B
- author: damieng.com download: Windows
4. MonteCarlo
5. Anonymous
- author: ms-studio.com download: Windows | Mac
6. HyperFont
- author: hilgraeve.com download: Windows
7. Square Shooter Mono
- author: fateback.com download: Windows
8. Dina
- author: Jrgen Ibsen download: Windows
- Thanks for suggesting, moojj on Digg.
Of the seven fonts listed above, I like Anonymous the best. It looks great in Dreamweaver CS3, and my code is very easy to read.
A note to my Linux users. Help me out here. I couldn’t find much for Linux. What do you folks use as a preferred font?
November 16th, 2007 at 3:28 am
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November 16th, 2007 at 6:33 am
I use the cure font from artwiz fonts the bad thing is that it’s really little ._.
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January 19th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Linux handles most Windows fonts.
http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+%22windows+fonts%22
January 24th, 2008 at 7:12 am
font #1 looks great, but i think you need to add the “0″ (zeroes) to the test text - if the fonts zero is slashed is something very important for me (and i guess most programers)