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Which monospaced font do you use?

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Everybody here is a coder. So what monospaced font do you prefer and why ? At which point/size do you use it ?

I had my phase of looking for the coder's font. I spend some time spent looking at various monospaced fonts advertised as God's gift to coders. That time was, in retrospective, wasted. No font will provide anything more than maybe a few minutes of "yeah, this looks nice" feeling.

Nowadays I'm going with the defaults provided by IDEs, text editors, terminal emulators, etc. Choice of font is totally unimportant.

I use Consolas on Windows and Inconsolata on Linux, somewhere around the 9-10 pt size. Basically small enough so that I can get two 120-column+ editor windows side-by-side on a 1920px wide (24") display while big enough to not hurt the eyes over the course of a work day.

Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 10px on a 22" 1680x1050 - It's clean and crisp. Seems to be the only font I'm happy with on both Windows and Mac.

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1....

My eyes prefer it at a slightly larger point size, but this is my choice as well.

I was using inconsolata at 12 but last week I moved to Menlo and I think I have a new favorite.

Menlo it's really similar to Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.

Inconsolata, with varying sizes depending on my mental state. It’s free, pretty and legible.

Get it here: http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

I use Pragmata 11pt. Yes, it costs money, but given the years I've looked at this font, I think it works out to be pretty cheap :-)

http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragma.htm

Ubuntu's "Monospace" at 12 on a Dell 27" 2560x1440 monitor. I love it. I've tried just about every free monospaced font but still prefer this one.

NotCourierSans Bold 14pt. http://kernest.com/fonts/notcouriersans-bold

Consolas / Lucida Console (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas)

9x15.

I wish I could find this for OS X, but it's a bitmap font, and doesn't translate to a scalable font very easily.

I'm still pretty happy with Monaco, and on Windows I usually install Proggy when I install Vim.

peep font: http://zevv.nl/play/code/zevv-peep/

If anybody has ported this to OSX, please share!

If it's monospaced, it's fine. The emperor is naked.

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