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Monospace/Fixed Width Programmer's Fonts
(May 13, 2005)
Becoming frustrated with source code not aligning in [my] favorite source editor [I] decided to hunt for the best font. In particular, [I] began to hunt down the available fixed-width or monospaced fonts.
Why use monospaced fonts? Primarily because the text will align more readily. Especially is areas like the comment block header.
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Good Programming Font Criteria
- Crisp clear characters.
- Extended characterset.
- Good use of whitespace.
- 'l', '1' and 'i' are easily distinguished
- '0', 'o' and 'O' are easily distinguished
- forward quotes from back quotes are easily distinguished -prefer mirrored appearance
- Clear punctuation characters, especially braces, parenthesis and brackets
