Comments on Entropy Overload: Programming font for VS2010

Of course everybody is wrong, except those of us w...

2012-02-20T20:06:04.003Z

Of course everybody is wrong, except those of us who use Monaco.

I use this Dina TTF variant in VS2010 and SharpDev...

2011-04-04T07:48:02.783+01:00

I use this Dina TTF variant in VS2010 and SharpDevelop 4 at size 8:
http://chrisrickard.blogspot.com/2010/03/dina-font-for-visual-studio-2010.html

I use Liberation Mono.

2010-04-27T09:07:10.820+01:00

I use Liberation Mono.

RE zoom level, in the lower left corner of the cod...

2010-04-24T03:58:17.716+01:00

RE zoom level, in the lower left corner of the code window in VS 2010, I have a small dropdown list showing the current and available zoom levels. It looks similar to the zoom dropdown list in the lower right corner of IE.

DejaVu sans mono is recommended for Linux. It rend...

2010-04-21T07:35:43.723+01:00

DejaVu sans mono is recommended for Linux. It renders different (ugly) in Windows. Consolas 10px is my choice. I am sure, you will love it sooner or later

May I suggest Anonymous. I tried it a few years a...

2010-04-20T00:11:33.560+01:00

May I suggest Anonymous. I tried it a few years ago, and now I swear by it.

http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymouspro.html

BitStream Vera Sans Mono FTW! http://www.gnome.or...

2010-04-19T22:14:03.770+01:00

BitStream Vera Sans Mono FTW!

http://www.gnome.org/fonts/

I use Lucida Console size 9. I selected that one b...

2010-04-19T20:36:55.852+01:00

I use Lucida Console size 9. I selected that one back in the days of Win NT4, mainly because it was the best of the standard Windows font ;-).

I like EnvyR: http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/...

2010-04-19T18:39:35.134+01:00

I like EnvyR:

http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-coding-font-released

Anybody who needs to telnet/ssh into a unix/linux box and use miniterm, or edit/compile ancient Pascal-for-dos will appreciate the dos-style line-drawing characters. Can your font do that? :-)

W

Same here, Dina rocks, and when I must choose a TT...

2010-04-19T17:32:08.691+01:00

Same here, Dina rocks, and when I must choose a TTF I usually end with Consolas.

Jeff Atwood has a good set of screenshots at http...

2010-04-19T17:28:00.862+01:00

Jeff Atwood has a good set of screenshots at

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/10/revisiting-programming-fonts.html

And there are a pile of fonts listed at

http://keithdevens.com/wiki/ProgrammerFonts

But any search for the terms [programming font] should turn up a million people saying programmers are need very specific things out of fonts, and then only agree that new courier is ugly - after that there is zero consensus.

After trying all the fonts each time this comes up, I keep coming back to new courier - although Raize might get a fair look this time!

http://www.raize.com/DevTools/Tools/RzFont.asp

I use Dina for all programming, including Delphi, ...

2010-04-19T16:48:15.534+01:00

I use Dina for all programming, including Delphi, terminal windows, text editors, etc.

As a side question, what font do you use with Delp...

2010-04-19T16:43:08.588+01:00

As a side question, what font do you use with Delphi 2010? (I'm currently using ProggyClean)

I can't take Consolas in anything less than 11...

2010-04-19T14:13:30.212+01:00

I can't take Consolas in anything less than 11pt. Mind you I'm using Delphi 6 so I'm not sure how that differs in its rendering from VS2010.

You might like Sheldon; but for me, 12pt Consolas....

2010-04-19T13:59:58.243+01:00

You might like Sheldon; but for me, 12pt Consolas.

I'm using DejaVu Sans mono (look here: http://...

2010-04-19T13:24:16.163+01:00

I'm using DejaVu Sans mono (look here: http://dejavu-fonts.org ). Ok i'm using 10pt, but even in 8pt it's worth a look, i think :-)

Bye, Peter