What font do you use for programming?

[choroba]

Andalé Mono

 7/2%

Anonymous Pro

 2/1%

Consolas

 37/9%

Courier

 52/13%

DejaVu Sans Mono

 23/6%

Droid Sans Mono

 6/2%

Envy Code R

 4/1%

Inconsolata

 7/2%

Liberation Mono

 6/2%

Lucida Console

 16/4%

Menlo

 3/1%

Monaco

 10/3%

Monofur

 3/1%

Proggy Clean

 2/1%

Source Code Pro

 12/3%

The default, whatever it is

 134/34%

Other

 70/18%

394 total votes

[Tux]

I tried all of them.

To be honest, I installed all of them, but only tried the sans-serif fonts. I hate serif fonts.

I ended up using DejaVu Sans Mono, but I am open to any font that proves to be "better" in the future, as long as it is sans-serif.

One reason to choose DejaVu Sans (Mono), also in my xterm's, is its pretty good Unicode support.

[kevbot]

I was using Hack for a while, and I liked it. Currently, I'm using Monaco...as I never got around to reinstalling Hack after a recent upgrade. I think I'll reinstall it now.

[mr_mischief]

Hack is my terminal font in iTerm2 on my OS X desktop at $work. I do most of my $work programming in vim in the terminal. At home I'm mostly using Liberation Mono although some systems use Courier New or for retro stuff the hardware fonts.

[mr.nick]

I use Hack every place I need a fixed-width font. Terminals, Sublime, even in Outlook as my plain text.

[davido]

Ubuntu Mono Regular (which falls under your "default, whatever it is" category, I believe.

Seems fine to me.

[perl-diddler]

Might be default some places (like on Ubuntu), but if using an X-display, will usually use Ubuntu-mono on the "X-server" (which is running on cygwin), Native Win, usually Lucida-Console, as native win doesn't have a decent renderer for X-fonts.

I normally do my editing/devel on *nix running "X" and displaying on a Win-console using cygwin-X.

So not really a "default" in either case (I chose "other"). I have tried several or most of the other fonts listed.

Important note:X running w/font-config doesn't use the same font to display all characters, so the question is slightly unanswerable if you use 'X' on modern *nix's. I.e. I'll get reasonable display of many languages (including Japanese), in-line along with interspersed English (cf. Win7-64native Vim -- have to use 1 font that has all the chars defined that I need), though such is not true in many win-native programs.

Ex. Using "SecureCRT" a tty-style ssh client for windows will display in-line Japanese in tty sessions:

*example can't be shown on non unicode accepting sites*

Why does this site display amber;pound(or sharp) and a number for UTF-8 input? Makes it hard to discuss what fonts look good or how they display when the site doesn't allow most of the world's characters... ;-(

sigh

[ChuckularOne]

It was actually a combination of the Default and Courier, since the default is Courier...

[chacham]

Why no option for comic sans?

[Tux]

Are you dyslectic?

[duelafn]

Other: 9x15

I've tried several more modern fonts and I just never like them. I guess the subtle shape-of-font is too much a part of my bug-finding senses.

[fullermd]

6x13 (I guess), or rather, -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1, here too.

It's not the shape. I actually like a lot of the other choices better in most ways. But it's practically the only freakin' choice that's semicondensed. Regular width fonts are so wide, I feel like I'm getting whiplash every time I try to read them, never mind seriously cutting down on how much I can put on screen at once. Gimme some of the other choices in semicondensed, fixed can probably fall aside pretty quick...

[LanX]

Would be nice to compare screenshots of the same Perl code snippet in all these fonts. ..

Speaking of .... what might be the Lorem Ipsum of Perl coding?

Maybe some poetry? Or an excerpt of perldoc? $Larrym{IP}->sum() ?

[Lady_Aleena]

Courier New, though I don't know why I just don't use Courier. I might check into it some day.

[vitoco]

ATASCII

[iguanodon]

Dina, which I would have sworn was from the same folks who created the Proggy fonts. Turns out Dina is really more like a fork of Proggy.

[pythondude]

Termnius anybody?

[stevieb]

Whatever is displayed by default in vi/vim. Yes, my editor tells me what's good for me, and I allow it to do the thinkin'.

[perltux]

Terminal [LFP] size 8 here.

[gregor42]

r_ansi

the 1 and the l are very distinct.

[Anonymous Monk]

Comic Sans. It is important that one picks a Sans family font to preserve formatting.