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My favorite is still DejaVu (I mostly use the Bistream Vera portion) that strangely the article doesn't even mention. I like it enough and hate the way that most websites use fonts enough that I just use it for everything (I use it under urxvt also). I also set a minimum font size wich breaks a lot of things but is still a net benefit IMO. http://dejavu-fonts.org

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Same here, I configured Firefox to not allow pages to choose their own fonts. Instead, I use a font of my own choosing to render all webbrowser content, and I've set a minimum font size limit, too.

Together with the 'View/Zoom/Zoom Text Only' option enabled, I can comfortably read almost any web page, without having to scroll horizontally. Also, quite some sites show a bit breakage because their developers use fixed heights for container DIVs etc... (a container should size itself to its content, instead).

I may not know what I'm talking about, but Adobe's source sans and source code pro look a lot like dejavu but have some nice refinements IMO: eg the "-" is a little higher so "->" is better aligned. You may want to check them out.

After every HN article about the next best programming font I go back to DejaVu Sans Mono, so you may be on to something here.

I use DejaVu Sans Mono as well for terminal and source editing, but I found that it looks more slim if you apply autohinting to it (for example on Debian it changes quite significantly because of it). I usually put this in $HOME/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf

    <match target="font">
      <test name="family">
       <string>DejaVu Sans Mono</string>
      </test>
      <edit mode="assign" name="autohint">
       <bool>true</bool>
      </edit>
      <edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
       <const>vrgb</const>
      </edit>
    </match>

I used DejaVu Sans Mono until Ubuntu released their Ubuntu Fonts. Ubuntu Mono is a nice programming font! Sorry to tempt you...

The font grass is always greener in the next pasture. :)

Same here, always sought out DejaVu fonts until Canonical ? came out with the Ubuntu font. Now I literally even use it on Windows, not my preference to use Windows but Ubuntu fonts and Cygwin make the limited time I have to spend on it bearable.

I'm the same way with DejaVu. I forget how I originally found it but it seems to be very light on the eyes and renders really well on every platform and looks great.

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