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EsX_Raptor
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2802 Posts
March 27 2009 20:09 GMT
#1
This is a question directed towards all of you, programming peeps!

Ever since the beginning of my college CS Major till now (my junior year) I've been using the font "Courier New" until not long ago where I realized it's a font that brings hell on my eyes.

What is your preferred font to use while you program? I'm trying to find one that won't confuse me to insanity when trying to read code thousands of lines long!

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Zoler
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Sweden6339 Posts
March 27 2009 20:11 GMT
#2
I don't know really about fonts in programs but for web pages Verdana is good.
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DreaM)XeRO
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Korea (South)4667 Posts
March 27 2009 20:13 GMT
#3
TIMES NEW ROMAN
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Kentor *
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5784 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-27 20:22:44
March 27 2009 20:14 GMT
#4
On March 28 2009 05:11 Zoler wrote:
I don't know really about fonts in programs but for web pages Verdana is good.

lol Verdana. He's talking about monospaced fonts, as in fonts where every character has the same width, as in the ones you use to code.

Try Consolas. It comes standard with Vista and you can download it easily. I think that one is a pretty popular replacement for Courier New.

Oh, and only use Consolas if you have anti-alias on since it's designed for that. Else it's not that good.
LordWeird
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States3411 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-27 20:19:28
March 27 2009 20:16 GMT
#5
On March 28 2009 05:11 Zoler wrote:
I don't know really about fonts in programs but for web pages Verdana is good.


Verdana is great.(but poster above is right, not too great for coding). Another good one IMO is Lucida Console.

edit: Also looking through my fonts, Inconsolata is a good monospace font.
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IzzyCraft
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4487 Posts
March 27 2009 20:25 GMT
#6
Segoe UI, Candara, Calibri
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Kentor *
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5784 Posts
March 27 2009 20:30 GMT
#7
On March 28 2009 05:25 IzzyCraft wrote:
Segoe UI, Candara, Calibri

those aren't monospaced -______________________________-
pirate cod
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
810 Posts
March 27 2009 20:32 GMT
#8
There are a lot...
http://lowing.org/fonts/
I use Anonymous.
Sirakor
Profile Joined April 2003
Great Britain455 Posts
March 27 2009 20:39 GMT
#9
I find that size/boldness, the syntax highlighting colour scheme and lightling of the room/around the screen has a much larger impact than the font itself.

I use 'crisp' ie not too bold, relatively large settings and colour schemes with a light, almost white background that have enough contrast on all the highlighting in a well lit room. For some people dark backgrounds work better though.
Raithed
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
China7078 Posts
March 27 2009 20:40 GMT
#10
verdana = win. try it.
IzzyCraft
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4487 Posts
March 27 2009 20:43 GMT
#11
On March 28 2009 05:30 Kentor wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 28 2009 05:25 IzzyCraft wrote:
Segoe UI, Candara, Calibri

those aren't monospaced -______________________________-

Yeah but they show up better on the screen.
I have ass for brains so,
even when I shit I'm droping knowledge.
IzzyCraft
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4487 Posts
March 27 2009 20:44 GMT
#12
Fine monospace Inconsolata
I have ass for brains so,
even when I shit I'm droping knowledge.
Kentor *
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5784 Posts
March 27 2009 20:47 GMT
#13
On March 28 2009 05:43 IzzyCraft wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 28 2009 05:30 Kentor wrote:
On March 28 2009 05:25 IzzyCraft wrote:
Segoe UI, Candara, Calibri

those aren't monospaced -______________________________-

Yeah but they show up better on the screen.

do you even code? if you code in verdana or calibri then LOL
IzzyCraft
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4487 Posts
March 27 2009 20:49 GMT
#14
I can't see text as well in monospace it just looks like lines to me fucks up my ability to read.
I have ass for brains so,
even when I shit I'm droping knowledge.
Divinek
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Canada4045 Posts
March 27 2009 20:52 GMT
#15
On March 28 2009 05:47 Kentor wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 28 2009 05:43 IzzyCraft wrote:
On March 28 2009 05:30 Kentor wrote:
On March 28 2009 05:25 IzzyCraft wrote:
Segoe UI, Candara, Calibri

those aren't monospaced -______________________________-

Yeah but they show up better on the screen.

do you even code? if you code in verdana or calibri then LOL


LOL, yeah i can't imagine how you could maintain sanity while doing that regardless
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R1CH
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Netherlands10341 Posts
March 27 2009 20:58 GMT
#16
I use Proggy fonts, http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download
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TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
March 27 2009 20:59 GMT
#17
Whatever you call the default in the Emacs 23 snapshot, seeing as 90% of stuff I write is in that (the other 10% being Times New Roman in OpenOffice, cuz my English and History professors prefer that).
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Insane
Profile Blog Joined November 2003
United States4991 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-27 22:08:34
March 27 2009 22:08 GMT
#18
Courier size 10.
(Yeah I'm boring)
0xDEADBEEF
Profile Joined September 2007
Germany1235 Posts
March 27 2009 22:25 GMT
#19
Consolas. Best monospace font I've ever seen. Included in Vista. Requires Vista/7 with ClearType enabled though, otherwise it looks like crap.
JeeJee
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Canada5652 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-27 23:13:10
March 27 2009 23:12 GMT
#20
come to think of it i never changed the defaults
apparently it's terminal and/or monospace##?
here's the SS, the other one's whatever the default in netbeans is
[image loading]


random plug: i suggest you give skipall a chance for an imagehost if you haven't heard about it yet, it's great xD

i'll give consolas a try now
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Navane
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Netherlands2749 Posts
March 28 2009 17:54 GMT
#21
Fixedsys is my favourite. But sometimes I can't find it and I use Lucida Console
Cambium
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States16368 Posts
March 28 2009 21:32 GMT
#22
courier new...

-_-

How can a font confuse you? It's not like any characters look similar (unless you use a crazy language).
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Luddite
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States2315 Posts
March 29 2009 00:43 GMT
#23
I think this picture has a pretty good Programmer's font lol:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=90196&currentpage=6
Can't believe I'm still here playing this same game
EsX_Raptor
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2802 Posts
March 29 2009 04:26 GMT
#24
On March 29 2009 06:32 Cambium wrote:
courier new...

-_-

How can a font confuse you? It's not like any characters look similar (unless you use a crazy language).

I'm currently programming in C++ and Lisp.
Lisp is the one that drives me crazy (try pairing a lot of '('s and see how insane it looks x_X)

I'm a give Consolas a try =P
Cambium
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States16368 Posts
March 29 2009 06:13 GMT
#25
On March 29 2009 13:26 EsX_Raptor wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 29 2009 06:32 Cambium wrote:
courier new...

-_-

How can a font confuse you? It's not like any characters look similar (unless you use a crazy language).

I'm currently programming in C++ and Lisp.
Lisp is the one that drives me crazy (try pairing a lot of '('s and see how insane it looks x_X)

I'm a give Consolas a try =P


Never done lisp

LoL, that's a lot of )))))))

Looks pretty bad... but I still think Objective-C is worse.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
haduken
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia8267 Posts
March 29 2009 11:24 GMT
#26
Inconsolas on linux is also pretty good. But i find it stuffing up my other layouts, i'm using Sans atm... dunno if it's monospaced or not.
Rillanon.au
emucxg
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Finland4559 Posts
March 29 2009 14:11 GMT
#27
On March 28 2009 05:58 R1CH wrote:
I use Proggy fonts, http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download

this is awsome, thanks
Sirakor
Profile Joined April 2003
Great Britain455 Posts
March 29 2009 17:36 GMT
#28
On March 29 2009 13:26 EsX_Raptor wrote:

I'm currently programming in C++ and Lisp.
Lisp is the one that drives me crazy (try pairing a lot of '('s and see how insane it looks x_X)


Does your editor/IDE/whatever not highlight matching brackets???

I do agree though that lisp syntax is a bit gash ;-)
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