Top 1. 0 Programming Fonts. Sunday, 1. 7 May 2. Permalink. Update This post was written back in 2. Ive also written a few subsequent posts about alternative programming fonts, like this one about Anonymous Pro. Im a typeface geek, and when it comes to selecting a font Ill stare at all day, I tend to be pretty picky. Recently, when I discovered that a friend was using a sub par typeface too horrible to name here for his Terminal and coding windows, my jaw dropped, my heart sank a little, and I knew it was due time for me to compose this article. What follows is a round up of the top 1. Free-Font-7.jpg' alt='Monaco Programming Font' title='Monaco Programming Font' />Many of these fonts are bundled along with modern operating systems, but most are free for download on the web. A few, notably Consolas, are part of commercial software. A note about anti aliasing. In the past, weve had to decide between tiny monospace fonts or jagged edges. But today, modern operating systems do a great job of anti aliasing, making monospace fonts look great at any size. Its not 1. 99. 0 anymore. Give your tired eyes a break and bump up that font size. If you have any doubt that anti aliased fonts are apropos for code, note that even the venerable BBEdit which for years has shipped with un aliased Monaco 9 set as the default has made the jump. The app now ships with a specially licensed version of the Consolas font from Ascender, bumped up in size, and with anti aliasing on by default. Panic includes a special anti aliased font Panic Sans, which is actually just a version of Deja Vu Sans Mono with its popular Coda application. Monaco Programming Font' title='Monaco Programming Font' />Unless otherwise noted, Ive used a larger size font, 1. Courier. All systems ship with a version of Courier sometimes Courier New, and unfortunately, many have it set as the default font for terminal and editor windows. It does the job, but its a bit dull and boring, lacking style and class. Ive recently been sent newer version of the Monaco font and so I decided to put it online. The version number of the previous font I hosted was 2. Modern Tk Tutorial for Tcl, Ruby, Python and Perl. If you install a font you have either bought it or obtained a free font there are no legal problems with the use of this as the CSS code is merely calling the. IDSC Holdings LLC is the owner of the trademark NEXIQ Technologies registered in the United States and other countries, and also claims rights associated with its. Emacs. emacs. dinit. Monaco. Monaco is the default monospace font on the Mac and has been since its inclusion in System 6. Its a solid, workhorse font that really shines at smaller. Hey girl, if you write to Ryan Gosling, dont use this font. The actor hosted the season 43 premiere of NBCs SNL on Saturday and in a pretaped SNL sketch video. I dont recommend this font if you have any other choice and fortunately, you do. If you use this font, please bump the size and turn on anti aliasing. Figure 1 Courier New. Andale Mono. A bit better than the Courier family, Andale Mono is still relegated to the default font category as it ships with some systems, and you wouldnt want to download or use it if it wasnt already there. The character spacing is a bit too clumsy and the letters are a bit too wide for my tastes. Figure 2 Andale Mono. Monaco. Monaco is the default monospace font on the Mac and has been since its inclusion in System 6. New Mill Turn CADCAM software by BobCADCAM gives you easy to use CNC Programming capabilities for your Mill Turn Multitasking CNC Machine. Get a Free Trial. Its a solid, workhorse font that really shines at smaller font sizes with anti aliasing turned off. I loved this typeface back when my eyes could tolerate staring at a 9 point font for hours, but those days are behind me. This font looks great at 9 or 1. Figure 4, and doesnt look too shabby anti aliased at higher sizes Figure 3. As far as I know, you can only get Monaco as a part of Mac OS, but there are alternatives, so keep reading. Figure 3 Monaco. Figure 4 Monaco 9 point, without anti aliasing. Profont. Profont is a Monaco like bitmap font available for Mac, Windows, and Linux theres also a modified version for Mac OS X called Pro. Font. X by a different author. Theyre best at smaller sizes, and make a great alternative to Monaco if youre on a non Mac platform and want really tiny fonts and the eyestrain that goes along with them. Profont and Pro. Font. X is intended for use at 9 points with anti aliasing turned off. Figure 5 Profont 9 point, without anti aliasing. Monofur. Monofur is a unique monospace font that looks great anti aliased at all sizes. Its a fun font with a distinct look that is vaguely reminiscent of Suns OPENLOOK window manager, which ran Solaris aka Sun. OS systems back in the late 8. If youre looking for something a bit different, try this font, but make sure you have anti aliasing turned on, even at small sizes. Figure 6 Monofur. Proggy. Proggy is a clean monospace font that seems to be favored by Windows users, although it works fine on a Mac. Its a clean font intended to be used only at smaller points, and without anti aliasing. Figure 7 Proggy Clean at 1. Droid Sans Mono. The Droid font family available for download here is a nice font family designed for use on the small screens of mobile handsets, like Android, and licensed under the Apache license. Droid Sans Mono makes for a great programming font. Its got a bit of flair, and stands out among the other monospace fonts Ive listed, and its only real flaw is the lack of a slashed zero. Figure 8 Droid Sans Mono. Deja Vu Sans Mono. The Deja Vu family of fonts are one of my favorite free font families, based on the excellent Vera Font family. The Deja Vu fonts have been updated with a wider range of characters while maintaining a similar look and feel to that of Vera. This was my go to font family for many years. It looks great at any size with anti aliasing turned on. Panic ships a font with its Coda application called Panic Sans which is based on this font. Gruber says via email that when he compared Panic Sans against Vera, he noted that Panic had noticeably crisper punctuation chars and that it seemed like they had improved the hinting on some characters as well. Handy Backup Full Crack. Figure 9 Deja Vu Sans Mono. Consolas. Consolas suddenly appeared on my Mac after I installed Microsoft Office, along with a handful of other new fonts from Microsoft. This font was designed by Lucas de Groot for Microsofts Clear. Type font family theres a nice write up with samples of each of the new Microsoft fonts here. Consolas is a commercial font, but is bundled with many Microsoft products, so theres a good chance you might already have it on your system. Youll absolutely want to have anti aliasing turned on if youre using Consolas, because itll look terrible without it. Too bad its not free if it was, it would be 1 on this list. Figure 1. 0 Consolas. Inconsolata. Inconsolata is my favorite monospaced font, and its free. Shortly after discovering it, it quickly supplanted Deja Vu Sans Mono as my go to programming font. I use it everywhere, from Terminal windows to code editors. It has a certain sublime style thats unique without being over the top, and it looks fantastic at both large and small sizes. I use this font when I show code samples in a presentation, and its the font we use in Terminal and Text. Mate windows when filming Peep. Code screencasts. Inconsolata is designed to be used with anti aliasing enabled, but its surprisingly legible even at very small sizes. A big thanks to Raph Levien for creating this font, and for making it free. Figure 1. 1 Inconsolata.