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When sorting through thousands of lines of code, the default font can be an eye sore. That’s why some people made specific fonts just for programming/easy reading. Here are some of the best fonts for programmers. Again, if you have any suggestions that aren’t present here, feel free to leave a comment.
- Bitstream Vera – Vera is a typeface (font) with a liberal license. It was designed by Jim Lyles from Bitstream, and is closely based on Bitstream’s Prima, for which Lyles was also responsible. It is a TrueType font with full hinting instructions, which improve its rendering quality on low-resolution devices such as computer monitors.
Download: Get it here
- Consolas – Consolas is a monospaced (non-proportional) typeface, designed by Lucas de Groot. It is a part of a new suite of fonts that take advantage of Microsoft’s ClearType font hinting technology. It comes with Microsoft’s Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007, and is available for download from Microsoft. Among the Windows Vista fonts, Consolas is most similar to the other monospaced fonts, Lucida Console and Courier New. It is the only standard Vista font with a slash through the zero character.
Download: Get it here
- MonteCarlo – A monospace font, created by programmers, for programmers. MonteCarlo is a bitmap font suitable for code editors. All the characters have the same width, which is ideal for alignment. It is loosely derived from the look of the Monaco screen font that was available on the old MacOS systems. Some changes have been made to make it easier to differentiate certain symbols.
Download: Get it here
- Pragmata – Pragmata is a geometric condensed monospaced font. It is an ideal font for programming as the lines are more compact in width.
Download: Get it here
- ProFont – ProFont is a small bitmap font which is absolutely great for programming. It was made for Macintosh computers, but now it’s also available for Windows and Linux/UNIX X Windows.
Downloads: Get it here
- Proggy Square – The bitmap .fon version of this font includes 2 font files. One is the ANSI extended version, and the other is OEM extended. The latter is a console font and can be selected in console applications on Windows machines. Further, only the bitmap ANSI version has all the extended characters. The ttf and pcf files are missing some of the extended characters.
Download: Get it here
- Triskweline – Triskweline is a fixed-width font especially suited for text editors and programming environments. It was designed for maximum legibility and tidiness and supports all important symbols and Latin-1 characters.
Download: Get it here
Note: Font descriptions and images seen here are taken directly from the creator of the font or from Wikipedia.
Useful Links
- BetterFonts.com – A user-friendly font site with thousands of fonts.
- Pixel Fonts – The Pixel Fonts section contains annotated links to pixel fonts, a.k.a. small screen fonts or bitmap fonts.
this fonts give me chills, I think I’ll stick to Courier New.
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