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I would be remiss not to point out Inconsolata. It's perfect (IMHO) for code, terminals, and email.

http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

I'm a huge fan of Inconsolata. There's a variant called Inconsolata-g that's even better: http://leonardo-m.livejournal.com/77079.html

Thanks for that! This font looks gorgeous in Terminal. I was just struggling 2 days ago to find a better font because I was fed up with the system defaults.

me 2.

Been using it in the recent years.

I love Inconsolata as well -- it's the only font on OS X that comes close to Consolas on Windows. For some reason though IntelliJ cannot render it well at all, so I've resorted to using Droid Sans Mono [1], which is awesome as well.

[1]: http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Droid+Sans+Mono

It's good, but I'd say it's short of perfect due to the similarity of the "1" [one] and "l" [lower-case ell]. Inconsolata-g fixed this, but in a strange way (taking the lower serif off the "1" [one]).

The 1 in Inconsolata does not have the serif either, and it hasn't for a while I think: http://levien.com/type/myfonts/incoshow.png

Yes, you're right. I was looking at an old version. That change definitely improves the font, but it's still an odd solution, IMHO.

the top serif is also angled downward on the 'one'.

here's a preview of Inconsolata-g at high res (~100kB)

Where?

For those who miss Greek characters, here's an Inconsolata variant that has them as well: http://www.cosmix.org/software/

The big trouble with Inconsolata for me is the lack of a bold weight. This means it doesn't work in emacs if you use bold with your font lock mode.

Exactly, I use it in all my editors and iTerm too

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