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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.