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Bob's Game has a slashed zero while KOPQRSTUVZ is changed.
Nimbus Sans Mono contains kerning pairs that URW++ added them. You do not need these. The capital J and small r is fully serifed.
Prima Sans Mono BT has the same as Bitstream Vera Sans Mono but is commercial. It lacks a center dot on the zero and the small l is fully serifed.
Proggy Square is used in Tears of Steel for text like MEMORY OVERWRITE COMPLETE.
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I can't understand the code when the font is not fixedsys.
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One hundred percent agree. The programming font is "fixedsys". "Terminal" is another option!
modified on Wednesday, July 9, 2008 5:09 AM
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They are all good fonts, but i think one of the most important things is the separation between lines, thats where Courier takes the cake.
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I like the look of them
I want to make more friends all over the world.
I love StarCraft and some ACT video games.
MSN: c.nicos@hotmail.com
Welcome to China, Welcome to Beijing!
And don't forget to bring your XBOX 360
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Is there any windows version available? (specially ter-114n or ter-112n)
// "In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
while (I_am_alive)
{
cout<<"I love to do more than just programming.";
}
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Just google the "terminus.ttf" and "ter-k14n.fon", and put the downloaded *.ttf or *.fon in the WINDOWS/Fonts?
I love the look of those!
I want to make more friends all over the world.
I love StarCraft and some ACT video games.
MSN: c.nicos@hotmail.com
Welcome to China, Welcome to Beijing!
And don't forget to bring your XBOX 360
pad
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Thanks for the comment. (How stupid I was, maybe it happens after working for long hours!  )
terminus home page[^]
c.nicos wrote: I love the look of those!
I like ter-k14n either.
// "In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
while (I_am_alive)
{
cout<<"I love to do more than just programming.";
}
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We all do make mistakes some times.
The URL you mentioned is for Linux only. Windows can't use the format.
Actually, you can find the ttf verion here[^]. Remember to Use the EricCheng's modified ttf version for Windows. And for .FON, here[^] you can find the whole pack! (in the "Not Yet Reviewed" section below).
I want to make more friends all over the world.
I love StarCraft and some ACT video games.
MSN: c.nicos@hotmail.com
Welcome to China, Welcome to Beijing!
And don't forget to bring your XBOX 360
pad
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I am surprised that Andale Mono is not doing that well at all! That is my font of choice -- it's easy on the eyes (my eyes at least), fixed width, and 1lI O0 are all very distinguishable.
There are my 2 cents
Bkins
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Had never heard of it until this poll. Trying it now, looks good.
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True, Andale Mono was truly a gift when it's shipped with IE5. Having to be stuck for so long with Lucida Console or, ugh, Courier New, is an appalling situation.
I was an Andale Mono fanatic for years until one day I decided to get to know what those 'cool kids' were using when they pasted screenshots of pretty source codes with TextMate. It's Monaco, default monotype font from Apple.
I also had similar experience with the variable-width font. If you happened to see a default WordPress theme (Kubcrick) in a Mac, you'll notice the text is subtly more elegant. That's because the CSS uses Lucida Grande (or alternatively Verdana), again the default font in OS X. I believe these 2 fonts must be installed in every PC. And no, I'm not a fan boy
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Yep, and I'm still using it.
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Don"t know, don"t care, I use whatever is default
Typo or a subtle joke? No one else has commented on it so far either! 
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It seems to me that "the perfect typeface" would:
0) Be TrueType
1) Be fixed-width
2) Be legible in my chosen point size* (in Visual Studio)
3A) 0 and O easily distinguishable (preferably slashed zero)
3B) Uppercase I and lowercase L easily distinguishable
3C) Lowercase L and the digit 1 easily distinguishable
4) Have glyphs for "all formatting marks" (in Word)
5) Be available from Microsoft 
6) Be sans serif (except for the uppercase I)
7) Be usable in a DOS box
(In that approximate order.)
* I use 8 point, you are welcome to choose a larger size
0 1 2 3A 3B 3C 4 5 6 7
Courier New X X X X X X
Lucida Console X X X X X X X X X
Consolas X X X X X X X Looks OK at 10 point, bad at 8 and 12
ProggyCleanSZ X X X X X X X Unreadable at 8 and 10, OK at 12
ProggySquareSZ X X X X X X Unreadable at 8 and 10, OK at 12
Added:
Andale Mono X X X X X X X ? X
Anonymous X X X X X X X 7 point
Bitstream Vera X X X X X X X X
Envy Code R X X X X X X X OK at 8 and 12, better at 10
Onuava X X X X X X Mostly readable, percent sign in particular is troublesome
I think I'll try Lucida Console for a while and see how it goes.
Well that lasted about five minutes... In VS and Notepad the == runs together into one long equal sign (also combinations like mm).  I may need to add another criterion above.
modified on Thursday, July 3, 2008 2:57 PM
modified 6-Aug-23 13:46pm.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: ProggyCleanSZ X X X X X X X Unreadable at 8 and 10, OK at 12
I use ProggyTinySZ at size 8, same as ProggyCleanSZ but optimised for size 8.
Simon
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I'll take a look.
No joy  still unreadable (on my system at least) below 12 point.
Proggie small as well.
modified on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 10:37 AM
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This is what the author of the proggy fonts writes about ProggyTiny:
"Real programmers use Proggy Tiny. Proggy Tiny is well-proportioned and is the smallest programming font I could come up with while maintaining distinctive characters and good readability.[...]
Use at point size 9 (bitmap font), 12 (truetype), or 16 (mac truetype)
The bitmap .fon version of this font includes 2 font files. One is the ANSI extended version, and the other is OEM extended. The latter is a console font and can be selected in console applications on Windows machines."
So the bitmap-version will get the two points for console use and containing all characters, but loose one for not being truetype.
But it may get an extra point for being almost your prefered size.
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Douglas Adams, "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"
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Thanks.
The non-TT ProggyTiny looks good in VS (on my system).
I'd have to figure how to use it in a DOS box (only "Raster Fonts" and "Lucida Console" are listed) to see if it fills that role.
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I changed my color settings so that numbers should up with a light blue background, that helps with the 0 O thing, but doesn't help when it's in a string.
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Or when printed in black.
Or in Notepad.
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I really wonder if so few people use the original Courier that it hasn't been added as an option. I still use it, will always do. I tried pretty much all other fonts, but none works for me.
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In my opinion, Courier looks horrible with ClearType turned on. I just tried it in VS2008 and the font looked all jagged and hardly readable.
(Yeah I know, some people find ClearType horrible in general)
regards
modified 12-Sep-18 21:01pm.
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