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My Favorite Font for Writing Code

Probably like every developer I want to have as much information as possible on my screen, especially when writing code. The chosen font is of course quite important; more text on your screen is better (as long as it’s readable). If you want to replace the default font, I recommend following website: http://www.proggyfonts.com/. Over there you can download a lot of programming fonts, for free! My favorite programming font is currently Opti Small:
opti small

Code in this font looks like this:
screenshot opti small

2 Comments

  • Thanks for the link! I always wanted something a little nicer than the default font (I got spoiled by the nice fonts in Linux).



    -Matt

  • Upon further review, I have to give the nod to ProFont:



    1. The horizontal lines on the capital "i" are more pronounced in ProfFont, which helps to differentiate between the lowercase "l".



    2. The slashed zero (0) in ProFont is easier to see if you sit at a moderate distance from your monitor.



    3. The delimiters ":" and ";" are emphasized in ProFonts, which make them _ideal_ for programming in languages like C/C++/Java/C#



    4. Curly brace "{}" is "straighter" in ProFont. It's easier to distinguish between "{}" and "()".



    But I guess I'm just overanalyzing :) Both are better than the standard fonts that install with Windows (with regards to writing code). MS should seriously, for the sake of convenience, include some fonts like these with VS2K5

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