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Here's a good comparison (and vote) of programming fonts:

http://www.slant.co/topics/67/~what-are-the-best-programming...

Most popular: Source Code Pro

http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro....

Monaco, my favorite, comes at #3.

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Argh, why does no one include a tilde in the sample? A raised tilde ruins a font for me because of the ruby match operator: =~

Can a vim nerd respond with how to display-time-remap a normal tilde to another unicode codepoint? There are at least four tilde-like glyphs that may be cast by any middling magician of the Unicode elements: ~⁓〜˜

Looking at src/screen.c, the tilda character is hardcoded. So you'd need to patch it.

Perhaps a terminal application could do it then.

It's very easy to edit a font. So if the font is perfect except for the ~, just edit it and change that.

There is a tilde in the full sample:

http://www.marksimonson.com/assets/content/fonts/AnonymousPr...

Thanks! I switched to Liberation Mono, it's almost as legible as Droid Sans Mono but differentiates the 0 and O.

The link to Proggy Clean redirects to Groupon, it can be downloaded here instead: http://www.dafont.com/proggy-clean.font

+1 for Proggy Clean. I have used it for many years now.

What I really like about Source Code Pro is that it has a 'Light' version, which looks absolutely perfect on OSX with its fatty font rendering. Before this, I used to always have t acclimate between Ubuntu and OSX and Windows, but not anymore!

One thing I do when using Source Code Pro is shorten up the line spacing a bit. There's a slider to do it in iTerm2, and you can use these options in Sublime Text:

>> "linePaddingTop": 8,

>> "linePaddingBottom": 8

By default that family of fonts almost seems double-spaced to me, otherwise I really like them.

It is surprisingly hard to obtain a consistent font rendering across OSX, Windows and Linux. I had to play with the weight of the fonts, but also the font size (on Windows, my font is 3pt smaller than on OSX...). Irritating, especially when you actually synchronize your configuration files.

I agree, and the main irritant has to be OSX and its refusal to do any hinting or 'sharpening' at lower point sizes. I hoped the retina will make it better, but amazingly, it doesn't quite enough, fonts still look too fat and rounded on the edges!

Thanks for that tip. It really makes a difference in readability.

I take this as confirmation of my choice- Consolas. 2nd favorite by a close margin, and it's usually already installed!

> it's usually already installed

Only on Windows Vista/7/8.

You still use Windows ME?

I pointed it out because many people use Windows XP, OS X, Android, or iOS. All those OSes (as well as UNIX clones and variants) don’t come with the font pre-installed.

But he/she said usually, not always. And yeah, a ton of people use windows 7/8 so he/she can say that.

A lot more people use the OSes I listed.

Consolas is nice, but for me it is too small for 10pt, and too large for 11pt.

I use Linux and install always Consolas.

Programmers designing fonts is cute but it's not good idea. Lucas de Groot knew what he was doing.

I like Inconsolas for Linux instead of Consolas.

+1 for consolas on Linux.

Monaco -- not my favorite but up there -- is remarkably good especially given it was a first generation Truetype redo of a bitmap font.

I like Source Code Pro, but it lacks italics. That's really the only downside to me.

I love Monaco also, but only unaliased at about 10pt. Otherwise, I use Menlo or DejaVu Sans Mono usually.

I've known about Anonymous Pro, but have not given it much usage yet to decide if I like it more than others.

Strange, I'm seeing italics in Sublime Text 3 for Source Code Pro.

You're right that the font seems to lack italics, anyone know whether this is just Sublime faking it?

Yes, as you stated it's basically Sublime slanting the characters.

Here is the ticket on Github: https://github.com/adobe/source-code-pro/issues/6

I think the font rendering engines (e.g. FreeType) can do fake italics by slating the characters.

What would you use italics for in programming? I've never used italics, maybe I'm missing something.

It will depend on the syntax rules for the editor.

Comments.

I was wondering why the MonoFur example was in italics, then I tried it out in Sublime - for some reason it uses the Italic version as if it is the regular version, and I haven't found a way of fixing that. Does anyone have any suggestions?

You could try uninstalling the italic version of the font.

... obvious solution with hindsight.

Still, I wonder if the bug is with Sublime or the font (since other fonts don't seem to have this problem).

Monaco is my favorite as well. Actually I think it's slightly less readable then bitstream vera or consolas, but Monaco has some kind of angular personality to it that makes more emotionally satisfying to read and program in, than the others

Neat. I'd love to see a site that separates by platform. The different font rendering of OS X and Windows is significant and I tend to pick different fonts for them.

My favorite is Inconsolata-g, looks sharp for programming http://www.slant.co/topics/67/viewpoints/6/~what-are-the-bes...

I've tried other fonts, nothing compares to Source Code Pro. You never really notice how much a decent font impacts how you read until you replace it with something else.

I'm afraid that the reason the best programming font in the world - Terminus - isn't in the top 5 is because of the terrible screenshot. :(

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