Fonts for Programming
About The Right Font™ for programming.
This entry was first published on November 05, 2005, 11:36 PM, CET and categorized as Misc.
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Simon says (a pun a day keeps the devil away) to test Dina as a font for your editor(s). Well, I did and I like it. But (there's always a but if you believe that Courier New is the best suitable font for programming [and I tried a lot of monospace fonts]) there are few things I do find irretating:
- Different widths for normal and bold styles (this is only an issue with PN2 and commenting out code as I am too lazy to change its default style settings)
- The '+' (plus) is too small (not the same width as the '-' (minus)) and sort of a less dark '*' (asterix)
- Sometimes I confuse the '0' (zero) with the '8' (eight)
Anyway, until I get a LCD to get the maximum out of ClearType and test Consolas I assume I will to stick to Dina as my editor font of choice for now.
Update 2005-11-18: Fixed link to Dina font.
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