Better fonts for coding

[Andy Nguyen]

You all know how hard it is when you can't tell if it a 0 (zero) or capital O.
Can you tell apart I (capital i) and l (lower l)?

Anonymous Pro is a free set of fonts that help with it.

Mark Joshi uses it and he seems to like it.

 

[alain]

I'm extremely picky when it comes to fonts and coding. The one I like is called Proggy Clean (http://www.proggyfonts.com/) there is also Proggy Clean Slashed Zero.

I also use Monaco and one of the BitStream. However, Proggy is the best for my taste.

 

[Yassine]

2 others

Adding 2 others I like into to the mix:

• a clean one: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono (Bitstream Vera Fonts README) --just realized this one was mentioned before, I guess it's a good one
• and for an old school feel: Glass TTY VY220 (Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font) --you can skip to the download at the bottom of the page

 

[KaiRu]

I realy like DINA - Dina Programming Font - DonationCoder.com (it's modified Proggy)

It has all the characters on the first page and you can see that it was speciall designed to
distinguish between:

- 1 (one) - ! (exl. mark) - I ( like L) - l (like big I)
- o - 0 (zero) - O
- braces are nice as well and you can easily distinguish between " ( " and " ! " and " 1 "