Fonts for coding

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:50:01 +0000

Gruber talks about the fonts he likes for coding:

Me, personally, I'm still a Monaco 10px non-anti-aliased man. But if you prefer anti-aliasing even for coding fonts -- and in our coming-someday-soon resolution-indepenedent future, we all will -- there are a bunch of good options. My two favorites are Panic Sans, a Bitstream Vera Sans Mono derivative that Panic supplies with Coda, and Consolas, a new font from Microsoft designed by Lucas de Groot.

I've been through 'em all discovering problems with different point sizes, anti-aliasing and so forth. At the moment I am locked in on non-anti-aliased, Anonymous, 13pt in TextMate and anti-aliased, Anonymous, 12pt in iTerm.

For the record I do 99% of my coding in TextMate on a 23" Cinema display (1900x1200) with the TextMate window at full vertical stretch and about 50% width.

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Fonts for coding