Best Programming Fonts

[Daniel Leuck]

Being a font geek and a developer I'm always on the lookout for the best programming font. This survey provides an excellent reference.

I still haven't found a programming font that looks nice, has good legibility and is monospaced for Japanese characters :-(

Stuart - Thank you for the link!

[Cameron Souza]

BPMono rules! This is a good review of programming fonts.

[Attila Seress]

I've been pretty happy with the fonts and button generator at cooltext.com. It's handy for web apps.

[dote]

Since Google came out with the droid font I love it ... I use it in TextMate with great success but not sure about its use with japanese characters.

[Calin West]

I think Anonymous is hands down the easiest to read.



I didn't know about Droid. It also looks nice.

[Kevin Folan]

Nice link, I esp. like the way his examples highlight the 0 vs O. For me, lack of slashed (or dotted) zero is a deal breaker. Not just for coding but also console windows as well.

[Brian Russo]

Gotta agree.. love having slashed zeros. Consolas is what I typically use. Courier is still great as a terminal font.. probably because I'm just so accustomed to it.

A lot of other good selections there.. I can't imagine using some of them though.. like Crystal or Dina.

[Truman Leung]

Right now, I am enjoying Panic Sans installed by default in Coda.

Here's what some Japanese looks like in this font:

[Daniel Leuck]

I wasn't aware of Panic Sans. It looks like a nice programming font. I think the Japanese characters may be the result of dynamic font swapping. Some systems, such as Vista and certain apps, will transparently switch to a Japanese font if the current font doesn't have the necessary characters.

[Brian Russo]

Truman Leung said:

Right now, I am enjoying Panic Sans installed by default in Coda.

Reminds me of like an old C64