Submitted by Mike on Sat, 04/21/2007 - 7:57pm
Here's my shortlist of fave fonts for editing source code. Some of these are built in to MS Windows, others were supplied with Corel Draw 8 (my favorite illustration tool.)
I prefer monospaced, but some times I switch to a proportional font for variety - modern editors do a pretty decent job of dealing with them.
Monospaced:
- Lucida Console (Old Reliable)
- Courier New (boring, but it works)
- Monospace 821 BT (wide spacing, great for those late nights)
- QuickType Mono (very similar to Lucida Console)
Proportional:
- Comic Sans MS(!)
- Verdana (clean and omnipresent)
- Bell Gothic BT
- Century Gothic (clean, crisp)
- Futura Light BT (clean, crisp)
- Gill Sans MT (heavier, taller, still clean)
- Microsoft Sans Serif (larger and boring but works well enough)
- Murray Hill Bold BT (whimsical)
- Technical (whimsical, fun - I wish I could write like that.)
- Tw Cen Mt (fat)
- Vrinda (clean but lots of vertical spacing, and I don't know where the heck it came from)
What's your favorite source editing font? I'm always looking for new fonts.
Know of a place to download TrueType (or other scalable) fonts that are well suited to source editing? (Clean monospaced fonts seem to be hardest to come by.) Shoot me a URL and I'll post it.
