Comments on: Finding the Perfect Programming Font

By: Matt Freels

Matt Freels — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:50:20 +0000

I really like Droid Sans Mono as well. The lack of zero capital-O distinction is fairly annoying, so I created a variant with a dotted zero. Check it out here: http://matt.freels.name/2009/droid-custom.html

By: Rex Camposagrado

Rex Camposagrado — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:50:05 +0000

Ascender just released OpenType Pro versions of the Droid fonts here: http://www.droidfonts.com. This might be interesting to creative professionals who would like to use the Droid fonts in their design projects.

By: Lance

Lance — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:06:02 +0000

Droid Sans Mono is good. I used it on my VS2008.

By: Collin

Collin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:15:50 +0000

The color scheme is my own Scratch Art set for TextMate.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:10:22 +0000

I’ve tried Inconsolata. I prefer Consolas over it. I’m going to give Droid Sans Mono a try. BTW, what’s the color scheme you’re using in your editor?

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By: Kelan

Kelan — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:45:52 +0000

Not sure if you have seen Inconsolata, but it’s my current favorite:

http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:56:05 +0000

I still use ProFont (the “X” variant), usually at 9 points. For awhile I think I was using Anonymous in my Terminal…

By: Hamish M

Hamish M — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:17:37 +0000

Good stuff! Droid Sans Mono is really quite nice. (Interesting though, it’s the only on on your list with a poor difference between Zero and O)

I’m likely going to be doing a follow up article, talking briefly about all the great suggestions, as well as taking proportional fonts into consideration.