Droid Sans

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/DroidSansMonoSpecimen.svg/396px-DroidSansMonoSpecimen.svg.png

TrueType file: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=blob_plain;f=data/fonts/DroidSansMono.ttf;hb=HEAD

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Proggy Square.

http://kimag.es/share/24459875.gif

Download page: http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download

The last one shown above, is the one i often use

Terminus, on vim —of course :)

http://i.friendfeed.com/ccbc5101b97b85805531ed066b1e39c06d7e94f8

http://blogoscoped.com/files/terminus-font.png

http://fractal.csie.org/~eric/wiki/Terminus_font

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terminus here as well

Consolas, or it's free alternative Inconsolata

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/09/21/free-alternative-to-consolas-font/

http://www.johndcook.com/inconsolata.png

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I love the common "Monaco".

It used to be Fixedsys. Now it's Consolas.

Comic Sans (kidding)

Consolas

I too love Consolas.

In Windows nothing beats Courier.
Over Linux, I didn't get to that part yet (so I'll see what you suggest!).

I like Terminal and set Font size to 12.

I use a custom font called Eruwar.

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc305/Severne/eruwar.jpg

Do you have a link to that font Severne, is it available for download?

I'm on a Mac. I use Monaco, the default. It looks best when it's all pixel-ly at 10pt font size.

DejaVu Sans Mono

Consolas.... love the cleartype...

Consolas.

Consolas is my favorite with ClearType on, Anonymous Pro with ClearType off, and Deja Vu Sans Mono every now and then to mix things up.

Calibri,Vrinda are my favorites.

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Monospace in Linux :)

http://img190.imageshack.us/i/monospace.png/

Blitz!
http://socoder.net/uploads/1/blitzfont.png
Because when you're coding AGameAWeek, it's probably not a bad idea to use a language you're comfortable with.

Language = Good. Font.. Well, the choice of font has never truly bothered me. As long as it's fixed-width, it's good enough.

Oh, Lucida Console is apparently the font set up in Programmers Notepad, so that's my other one.

Courier New forever..

I always use Consolas. I bring a copy of it with me on my flash drive to install in case I'm on a different computer.

+ for Consolas. ClearType friendly, readable in small sizes...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas

Anonymous pro.
http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/images/anonprorgrommtext.gif

Bitstream Vera Sans

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/BitstreamVera.svg/500px-BitstreamVera.svg.png

I find it interesting that not everyone programs using fixed-width fonts.

So long as the digits, the space, the plus/minus signs (plus and hyphen really), and the decimal point (period) are all the same width, a proportionally-spaced font can fit more code on each line without reducing readability.

Roger, do you know some good proportional fonts which meet those criteria?

Courier (I am boring :D). Also sometimes Lucida Console.

ProggyTiny SZ for me is the best!

http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download

> Roger, do you know some good proportional fonts which
> meet those criteria?

I don't have any such fonts on my stock installation of Fedora Linux, although I have used such fonts very many years ago (probably in the late 1980's!).

Also, I have occasionally needed to typeset programming code in the Eiffel programming language, where the convention is to use italics in a proportional font. To do that I used search-and-replace to change all spaces to "figure spaces" (which have the same width as a digit), and all hyphens and plus signs to Unicode mathematical signs which have the correct widths. Not something I'd do for day-to-day programming.

People also use LaTeX to typeset code or algorithms with proportional spacing for publication purposes. Here's an example from Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA by user Gkc):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/LaTeX_program_package_example01.png

(click through to the unscaled version of the above image, to see how good it looks)

Bitstream Vera Sans.
Same as Frode K above.

I find a proportional font easier to read. I don't see any benefit of using a fixed-width font. The only aligning I use is indenting with tabs.

From time to time you need use a simple text editor outside the IDE to edit codes. Fixed-width font!

Another for Anonymous here.

Proggy tiny!

I used to work with Pragmata http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/fsd/pragmata/

In my opinion the best font for VS with dark background (as seen in the screenshots above)

Used to be Courier new everywhere; but now it's Consolas on Windows and Monnospace on Linux

I'm so fickle. I can never decide. I go back and forth. Right now I'm using Consolas, but I've used Andale Mono and Lucida Console in the past. And hey, don't forget Fixedsys!

While trying to find a sample to post I found this great Wikipedia page that lists a bunch of fixed-width fonts with samples...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samples_of_Monospaced_typefaces

Just thought I would share.

Most important to me is a font that has unique characters. I need to be able to tell the difference between Il1 and 0Oo. (Which, I can't in this browser's font)

Case in point: I want to look at code and distinguish IFrame from lFrame ... which, again, I can't in this browser's font

http://www.tobias-jung.de/pics/profont-windows-mac-linux.png

http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/

dont_care
I FULLY agree. Any font which can properly differentiate the following glyphs at small sizes is my friend. Now, some of these are easy but even some very high quality fonts mess up.

Il17!|i
[capital "eye", lowercase "ell", number one, number seven, exclamation point, pipe, lowercase "eye"]

aoO0 A4 2Zz 5S$s 8B 9g 6G mnnm %X# t+ :.;, [{( )}]

And, any other characters with similar strokes.

I use Monospace on Linux and Courier New on Windows. I really love Monospace because it has a very nice lowercase "L" that's easy to distinguish from an uppercase "i" and the digit "one".

Envy Code R is really nice: http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-coding-font-released

Cant believe no one has mentioned Dina ..

http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Jibz/Dina/dina_c.png

http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Jibz/Dina/index.html

Fantastic font :D

Courier New, 12 pt. I hate cleartype (for writing) and I like crisp rasters and consider serifs as a good thing even for displays. I've been recently searching for usable alternatives; that is: monospace font with serifs with at least support for central european codepage (or better wider unicode), and with sizes above 9 pt. I haven't found a single one. (This comment was written in Courier New, 10pt, thanks certain userstyle.)

I'm surprised nobody mentioned the very good Liberation font set by Red Hat:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f4/Font_Sample_-_Liberation_Mono.svg/744px-Font_Sample_-_Liberation_Mono.svg.png

Anonymous Pro

Menlo

Jupiter Ace is awesome! got popular from zx-spectrum and zx81 machines, and it's very legible on very small sizes

   http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/1421/jupiterace.png

the ttf can be find at http://www.worldofspectrum.org/utilities.html

Monaco is awesome as well! :)

The default text console font, of course :)

http://himdel.mine.nu/let_fnt.png

Consolas (on mac) and sometimes Monaco

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/category/Programming

Monaco for code – courier for comments

http://img.skitch.com/20091008-ch3hiegaa3gkxc3gbuqek77rie.jpg

Whatever default font the software has, I'm usually fine with it.

>The default text console font, of course :)

how can set this font is vs2k8?

that differentiates 0oOiILl1 very well.
i remember my old days with TurboC screens

http://himdel.mine.nu/let_fnt.png