Best Coding Font Ever

[Wilba]

I started coding on UNIX systems and always used the fixed6x13 font available on X11.

When I switched to working on Windows platforms, I cursed having to use Courier or worse, and have used various non-TTF versions of fixed6x13 until I found a great TTF version here: http://www.twoevils.org/html/files.html

MiscFixedSC613

MiscFixedBC613

Be sure to use it at 9 point and for pixel-perfect clarity, turn off ClearType.  ;D

[bill]

Nice find !

Thank you Wilba :)

[stryd_one]

Thanks for sharing that one man!

[nILS]

I found my favorite one here: http://www.lowing.org/fonts/

[bugfight]

eveybody knows wingdings is the best coding font...

duh!

[nILS]

I really like Webdings a lot better - more arrows in it!

[Kartoshka]

thanks, my project needs this one  ... now in hebrew, please  ::)  ;D

[TK.]

eveybody knows wingdings is the best coding font...

Yes, especially when you are programming in Whitespace

Best Regards, Thorsten.

[Kartoshka]

it says "he ..llo"  8)

[bugfight]

...Yes, especially when you are programming in Whitespace...

lol, next we need midibox projects converted to brainf*ck

[Wilba]

I found my favorite one here: http://www.lowing.org/fonts/

Which one though?

I admit "best" is subjective... fixed6x13 is just my favourite, and I've coded with a lot of those other terminal fonts back in the good old days of vi (btw no, I do not have a big bushy beard) and discovered the obvious... small font means more lines per screen, more lines per screen means greater context, less scrolling, easier to edit large chunks, etc.

[nILS]

...and I've realized that I'd rather have a few lines less of my (extremely tidy ;-)) source code on the screen for the sake of not killing my eyes ;D

[bugfight]

clearly a professional programmers job is not to make it easy on himself, but rather hard for the next programmer to understand his code. 

(or so i have found when being the next guy)

[Wilba]

...and I've realized that I'd rather have a few lines less of my (extremely tidy ;-)) source code on the screen for the sake of not killing my eyes ;D

You need a larger monitor. Or glasses. Or both.  :P

[/tilted/]

Speaking of eyes, and of not hurting them...

Does anyone else here prefer coding on a black background?

I miss my old IIe...

[nILS]

You need a larger monitor. Or glasses. Or both.  :P

Nope, eyes are good (cuz I'm using bigger fonts ;)) and the monitors are big enough as well ;)

Does anyone else here prefer coding on a black background?

Yes, absolutely - see attached screenshot.

[stryd_one]

Which one though?

I admit "best" is subjective... fixed6x13 is just my favourite, and I've coded with a lot of those other terminal fonts back in the good old days of vi

Well it is mostly subjective but I do really like his criteria for a "good" font. His rankings were fairly much as I would have put them, with a few exceptions... He hasn't ranked GwdTE_437 or DPCustomMono2 which are both quite good.

(btw no, I do not have a big bushy beard)

What are you trying to say man? ;D

[stryd_one]

FWIW... I settled on Consolas.

This page was about the most accurate roundup in my opinion: Visual Basic Feng Shui - Fonts

[nILS]

Funny how reading "Feng Shui" made me *not* click the link :-)

[Wilba]

Funny how reading "Visual Basic" made me *not* click the link :-)

[stryd_one]

OK I see the VB hatred (lord I'm glad I canned that career path!) But what's wrong with feng shui? Especially with your interest in web design it should be a subject which is of great importance to you!

[nILS]

Funny how seeing it came from stryd_one made me *not* click the link :-)

*whack*

[stryd_one]

LOL!