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SourceCodePro is too wide or has too much horizontal spacing for me.

DejaVu Sans Mono can be better in some environments http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/

I also discovered I like the new Ubuntu Mono http://font.ubuntu.com/

except it has too much vertical spacing, but I hope to find a way to easily edit that someday

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I used the Source family briefly. It's quite nice, although there was something I didn't quite like about it. I replaced it with the Nimbus L family, which is very similar but seems easier to read to my eyes. (on X11, anyway. doesn't look quite as good on OS X for whatever reason).

I added some notes to the blog post about customizing horizontal and vertical spacing of the text. Advanced editors and terminals usually have a setting where you can fiddle this for your own comfort.

> SourceCodePro is too wide or has too much horizontal spacing for me.

I think so, too. At least compared to Consolas which I use and prefer.

I'm also a Consolas user. For me, Inconsolata and SourceCodePro have the same issue: the horizontal placement of @ drives me nuts.

The horizontal spacing of Consolas and Source Code Pro are almost identical. The vertical spacing of SCP is much greater, but you're more likely to be able to adjust that in your editor anyway.

Yeah, I tried this and ended up going back to DejaVu Sans in my Linux dev environment. Source Code Pro looked fuzzy to me.

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