Favorite font for programming?

[Kelsin]

Since I recently started a job that gave me a mac laptop I fell in love with Monoco. That font isn't available for other platforms is it? I should check into that. On linux I just use Bitstream Mono like most people Suits the purpose.

[Paul820]

Never saw this thread before. I use Monospace 8. I actually hated it the first time i used it because i was used to the pixelated microsoft fonts but now i can't do without it. A lot of fonts on linux are not consistent in the spacing.

[samjh]

Sans Mono 10

or

Courier New 10

[Lux Perpetua]

I don't use Bitstream Mono, Deja Vu Mono, etc. because (1) I don't like the shape of the lowercase l (ell) and (2) I can't stand the zero with the dot inside. I understand the importance of distinguishable 1/l and 0/O, but come on...

I currently use Luxi Mono. It's a bit sensitive to the rendering engine, though...for example, autohinter vs. native makes a big difference in readability. Also, there are some sizes in which it looks good and other sizes in which it's just a mess.

I've tried to install some of the Proggy fonts, but I couldn't get them to work.

[patrick295767]

I like these fonts :

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/8...rmovieakj6.jpg

someone knows what is could be similar to ?

[Anzan]

I've gone from Bitstream Vera to DejaVu recently and am very happy with it.

[duncan_bayne]

My favourite is ProFont - I've blogged about installing it on Xubuntu (& configuring Emacs to use it) here.

[CptPicard]

Too bad there is no font like MS Script on my machine... but this is a fair approximation of the poetic aesthetical effect I was looking for:
http://www.voittoporukka.fi/~eero/prettyfont.png

I can only suspect that those semi-mythical girl geeks code in something like this... (yes I will get the Borg Queen's wrath for this.. )

[pedro_orange]

Courier.

Choice of the professional

[jespdj]

Too bad there is no font like MS Script on my machine... but this is a fair approximation of the poetic aesthetical effect I was looking for:
http://www.voittoporukka.fi/~eero/prettyfont.png

I can only suspect that those semi-mythical girl geeks code in something like this... (yes I will get the Borg Queen's wrath for this.. )

Are you serious? Do you want to use THAT font for programming?! April 1 is already two days ago!

I recently discovered the Red Hat Liberation fonts, which look really nice. I'm now using Liberation Mono 10 pt for programming. There's an Ubuntu package for these fonts:

sudo apt-get install ttf-liberation