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 From:  Mal (BAD)  
 To:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)     
34679.20 In reply to 34679.18 
Features I look for include:
  • Easy to read on screen
  • Similar letters like O, 0 and o and l, I, 1 have to be easily distinguishable.
  • Good, distinctive punctuation eg square/round/curly brackets, commas, full stops etc.
  • Attractive, because I like good typography

And it has to maintain these characterstics in normal, bold and italic variants. So far, Consolas is my favourite but prior to that I tried things like Courier New, Monospace etc but they're not as nice. I find Courier's serifs make things look a bit fussy, Monospace managed to look good at one font size and looked fairly ugly at others etc.

Some programmers seem to value getting the maximum lines of code on screen, but I'm not that fussed myself.

And then you get things like the so called 'ultimate programmers font', Profont, which is about as fugly and unreadable as these things get, so yeah - whatever works for you really.
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   
 To:  Mal (BAD)     
34679.21 In reply to 34679.20 
Ewww! Profont actually makes Consolas look good!

:P


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...value getting the maximum lines of code on screen...

...without sacrificing readability, yes.

It makes it far easier to work if you can see a decent amount of code at once, reducing pointless scrolling.

People who write code with 70% of the screen occupied by palettes and toolbars are nuts.
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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)  
 To:  Mal (BAD)     
34679.22 In reply to 34679.20 
OK, that makes sense. I find that Monaco fulfills pretty much the same requirements.

some things never change
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 From:  Ben (BENLUMLEY)  
 To:  Mal (BAD)     
34679.23 In reply to 34679.20 
i shift between profont and a few other similar fonts. they have oversized punctuation and stuff. which works for me.
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 From:  Matt  
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34679.24 
Can someone attach / email / PM me Consolas font, please. Tried the download from MS, but can't install it without Visual Studio.

doohicky

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 From:  Mikee  
 To:  Matt     
34679.25 In reply to 34679.24 
Make sure you have nice font rendering turned on, or it'll look poop.
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 From:  Matt  
 To:  Mikee     
34679.26 In reply to 34679.25 
Everything looks poo as it is. Using Zend Studio 5.5.1.

doohicky

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 From:  Matt  
 To:  Mikee     
34679.27 In reply to 34679.25 
Oh and thanks :)

doohicky

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