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By: | Here’s a Quick Way to make code look nicer in Firefoxthe j-blog

| Here’s a Quick Way to make code look nicer in Firefoxthe j-blog — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:53:29 +0000

[...] I use Droid Sans Mono as my font for coding and in Putty and nearly everywhere. You can read and download it over at damieng.com. [...]

By: Command-Tab

Command-Tab — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:43:31 +0000

Finding the Perfect Programming Font

Inspired by The Typography of Code, I took a few snapshots of some of my favorite programming fonts.
BitStream Vera Sans Mono

BitStream Vera Sans Mono is a completely free font part of the GNU font package and has been my preferred coding font for the...

By: Phuket Information Technology Blog » Blog Archive » Android - Beautiful Monospace Font

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:23:11 +0000

[...] Found a beautiful monospace font here: [...]

By: Liberation and Droid, Two Free Font Families | peterc.org

Liberation and Droid, Two Free Font Families | peterc.org — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:34:25 +0000

[...] way to extract the Droid family from a developer’s archive - except Droid Sans Mono which is here). Liberation is a font family developed by Steve Matteson of Ascender Corp for Red Hat to use as a [...]

By: Kezzer

Kezzer — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:56:06 +0000

Heh, I actually just stumbledupon your post Damien and since I did, I then went on to download the font. The bold is richer than regular types, which isn't a bad thing as it makes certain key words more distinct. I think I'll stick with it for a while, see how it feels :)

By: Anko

Anko — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:06:27 +0000

Thanks for the tip. It's a really nice font except I find the semi-colon hard to read. It looks like I may have to revert to my old font, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.

p.s. your comment box thinks that isn't a valid character in an email address!

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Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:30:52 +0000

[...] Droid Sans Mono great coding font » DamienG - but of particular interest for developers is the Droid Sans Mono font that looks great in Visual Studio not only at my favourite 10 point… [...]

By: gregf

gregf — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 04:01:28 +0000

Pretty nice, using it now. Would really rock if the 0's had a dot or a slash. Nice work, thanks for sharing.

By: Vixiom Axioms » Droid Sans Mono funk dat sh!t, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono!

Vixiom Axioms » Droid Sans Mono funk dat sh!t, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono! — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:05:12 +0000

[...] while Droid Sans Mono doesn't suck as much as Courier Mono it can't even touch Bitstream Vera Sans Mono [...]

By: mozkill

mozkill — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:47:28 +0000

I tried using this font in my windows theme and it created all kinds of havoc with printing.

By: The Coffee Break Blog » Droid Sans Mono, a sweet monospace font

The Coffee Break Blog » Droid Sans Mono, a sweet monospace font — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:30:49 +0000

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By: Jane

Jane — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:49:28 +0000

Rich

If I have to work with code all the time, I don't want it to be in Courier. I want a clean antialiased gorgeous font I can stand looking at for hours on end - e.g. Consolas, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, Inconsolata.

I have the same discussion with friends and professors regarding Times New Roman. Yes, everyone uses it. That doesn't mean I want to look at what has to be one of the ugliest serif fonts in use today. It's a pain to read, it's a pain to edit my work when the font is giving me a headache, it's a pain when I'm reading it on a Mac where all these fonts look amazing.

The choice is most definitely personal. I prefer to look at what I want to look at if I have a choice, rather than to just deal with a nasty default.

Lastly, a good font can actually help with coding. I don't know about you, but I get to deal with partners who have problems typing. Syntax errors galore, and sometimes with the wrong font I can't spot why. On the other hand, a good font would make it fairly easy to spot a place where someone accidentally confused the letter O with the number 0.

By: My View » Writing Fonts

My View » Writing Fonts — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:33:41 +0000

[...] write exclusively in a text editor like he does, I do appreciate a good sans font. So here is the link if you want to snag it for your system. It should work on any [...]

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:50:31 +0000

Pissing on someone for pointing out a useful font to others makes no sense to me. Staring at code all day long can be a vastly more pleasant experience if the font is easier on the eye. Coding with a good font saves time in the long run.

Total time I've spent looking for a good font to code with? Zero minutes--thanks to this post.

"The choice of font is a PERSONAL thing; you choose what you find pleasing or helpful or whatever to look at." Exactly. And I didn't know that this font existed until Damien was kind enough to point it out. I know have a pleasing and helpful font to use.

For someone all fired up about not wasting time, you spent time posting somthing negative that did nothing to contribute to the thread.

By: Food, Fonts and Facebook « Rohan’s Weblog

Food, Fonts and Facebook « Rohan’s Weblog — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:27:58 +0000

[...] its your call, the font is quite nice. The next font is Driod Sans Mono. Read more about this font here. This font is great with emacs and vim. Highly readable and very clean. District Thin looks really [...]

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:36:22 +0000

Damien,

I just want to give my thanks for pointing us to a beautiful font. This font runs beautifully at 8pt.

By: Nels

Nels — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:04:45 +0000

Lack of bold style. No slash through zero. I'll also stick with Bitstream Vera Sans Mono (http://www.gnome.org/fonts/).

By: mux

mux — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:29:56 +0000

anyone else here reminded of the scene in American Psycho where the executives are sitting at the table comparing almost completely identical business cards?

...I know, I know, I'm a font zealot too, just playing devil's advocate. :)

By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:28:47 +0000

If you take pride in your code surely you want to spend a few minutes choosing a comfortable font that makes working with it even more pleasurable.

[)amien

By: FreeBee

FreeBee — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:21:06 +0000

I'm with Cem Gencer here.

Why are so many coders always yammering about which font is best, where they SHOULD be spending their time coding and/or debugging? The choice of font is a PERSONAL thing; you choose what you find pleasing or helpful or whatever to look at. I'd rather see the end result of a good programming job than all this yammering about fonts which isn't going to fix any bugs!