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

Whats is your favorite programmer's font?

	Bitstream Vera Sans Mono	18%
	ti92pluspc	0%
	Crystal	0%
	Monaco	8%
	Anonymous	0%
	Andale Mono	10%
	Raize	0%
	ProFont	3%
	Sheldon	3%
	BSU Kermit	0%
	Lucida Sans Typewriter Regular	7%
	Courier New	16%
	Courier	7%
	Other- listed in comments	14%
	WTF?	7%

Fonts Reviewed (Best Listed First) (View All)(Name, Sizes, Type, Description, Download Info)

 

Bitstream Vera Sans Mono (View Sample)

• 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 36, 48, 72
• TrueType
• Plenty of space between lines, dotted zeros, clean.
• http://www.gnome.org/fonts/

ti92pluspc ( View Sample)

• TrueType
• Clear, Dark, slashed zeros.
• http://www.tamuk.edu/math/scott/stars/tutorial.htm

Crystal ( View Sample)

• TrueType
• Clear, Dark, slashed zeros.
• Availiable with free Povray software. http://www.povray.org/povlegal.html

Monaco ( View Sample)

• 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 36, 48, 72
• TrueType
• Plenty of whitespace, slashed zeros, serifed i's.
• From Apple. http://www.pa.msu.edu/ftp/pub/misc/tek-phaser/ttfonts/MONACO.TTF or http://www.sttc.net.au/drivers/CLC/CLBP460/PS3FONTS/TRUETYPE/

Anonymous ( View Sample)

• 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 36, 48, 72
• TrueType
• Less whitespace, slashed zeros, very clear.
• http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymous.html

Andale Mono ( View Sample)

• 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 36, 48, 72
• TrueType
• Tons of space between lines, dotted zeros.
• http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

Raize ( View Sample)

• 10, 12, 14
• Bitmap
• Sharp, Legible, slashed zeros
• http://www.raize.com/DevTools/Tools/RzFont.zip

ProFontWindows ( View Sample)

• 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 36, 48, 72
• TrueType or Bitmap
• Clean, slashed zeros, really wide.
• http://66.167.72.10/ProFontWindows.zip

Sheldon ( View Sample)

• 9
• Bitmap
• Plenty of whitespace, real clear, slashed zeros.
• http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/

BSU Kermit ( View Sample)

• 9
• Bitmap
• Zeros Slashed, thin, spread out
• http://home.datacomm.ch/privmsg/havoc/mircscript.htm

Lucida Sans Typewriter Regula ( View Sample)

• 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 36, 48, 72
• TrueType
• Zeros Not Slashed
• Available with free Java 2 SDK. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html

Courier New ( View Sample)

• 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 36, 48, 72
• TrueType
• Lots whitespace between lines, no zero treatment.
• http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

Courier ( View Sample)

• 10, 12, 15
• TrueType
• Clean but spread out, no zero treatment.
• Installed with Windows

Lucida Consolev ( View Sample)

• 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 36, 48, 72
• TrueType
• Letters bunched, no zero treatment, clean text.
• http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

ProggyTiny ( View Sample)

• 8
• Bitmap
• Really tiny, dotted zeros
• http://www.tactile3d.com/tristan/

ProggyClean ( View Sample)

• 8
• Bitmap
• Typeriter appearance, dotted zeros
• http://www.tactile3d.com/tristan/

Fixedsys ( View Sample)

• 9
• TrueType
• Really Dark, slashed zeros
• http://fixedsys.moviecorner.de

Topaz-8 ( View Sample)

• 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 36, 48, 72
• TrueType
• Amiga Topaz-8. Little space between lines, slashed zeros, fat/squat text
• http://66.167.72.10/Topaz-8.zip

Free Monospaced ( View Sample)

• 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 36, 48, 72
• TrueType
• Unreadable crap.
• http://ftp.gnu.org/savannah/files/freefont/

MS Mincho ( View Sample)

• 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 36, 48, 72
• TrueType
• No Zero treatment, clear text
• Installed with Windows or Office. Try Google.

Hyperfont ( View Sample)

• 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 36, 48, 72
• TrueType
• Thin, spread out, slashed zeros
• ftp://ftp.hilgraeve.com/pub/vendor/hilgraeve/hyprfont.zip

Squareshooter Mono ( View Sample)

• 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 36, 48, 72
• TrueType
• Tons of room between lines, spread out,squarish, slashed zeros
• http://freefonts.fateback.com/hypotypo/