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I love Consolas, but Inconsolata (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconsolata) is a nice, friendly, take on it. I'd check it out if you haven't already–it's what I now use exclusively!

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I love Inconsolata. I hate the curly quotes.

If you feel the same, check out Inconsolata-dz:

http://nodnod.net/2009/feb/12/adding-straight-single-and-dou...

A great comparison of fonts that puts Inconsolata at the top. http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts

Inconsolata is also what I use exclusively. I make a point to install it on any new box that I'm going to be using regularly.

Thanks for the link. Note that it says Inconsolata is only at the top over Consolas because Consolas isn't free.

Just tried it out on Windows 7 with ClearType (same settings I use with Consolas). I don't know if there's a problem with the way ClearType is rendering the font or what, but it looks terrible on my system. Is ClearType supposed to be disabled or what?

Screenshots:

11pt http://i.imgur.com/Weq4G.png

12pt http://i.imgur.com/L4UDZ.png

It isn't much better without ClearType, either. Inconsolata looks a /lot/ better on linux, so it could be something wrong with the font hinting.

Same thing here. Seems e isn't letting me disable cleartype either.

Yes, it will look weird because Consolas was designed specifically for ClearType (which is why it looks nowhere as good on OS X). Inconsolata was designed without it.

Similarly, Monaco doesn't look half as good on Windows :) Text rendering differs on OS X and Windows.

I'm on OSX, and suggest some alternatives to Consolas above:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1454649

Been looking for a good programming font, and was disappointed that the OP was not one, so thanks!

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