Which are the best Best Programming Fonts? You may be satisfied working with Times New Roman, Georgia, Arial and Verdana fonts, but Programmers need more complex, fine and easily readable fonts to work with for all the codes they tweak for long hours on the computer. So there are programming fonts dedicated to make the work of Programmers easier.
Best Programming Fonts
- There is a large range of monospace bitmap Programming Fonts at Proggy Fonts. The proggy fonts are a set of fixed-width screen fonts that are designed for code listings and are distributed in Microsoft’s .fon format, the truetype (ttf) format, as well as XWindows (Linux/BSD) pcf format.
- Dina Programming Font is a monospace bitmap font, also aimed at programmers which is relatively compact to allow a lot of code on screen, while being clear enough to remain readable even at high resolutions.
- ProFont is a small bitmap font that is great for programming and works for Macintosh, Windows and Linux/UNIX X Windows.
- MonteCarlo is a monospace font, created by programmers, for programmers.
- Console fonts are fixed-pitch bitmap fonts that are optimized for writing source code, not for writing letters and again their main advantage is readability, which everyone needs, not just programmers.
- Pragmata is a geometric condensed monospaced font that claims to be ideal font for programmers.
- You can check out more Monospace, Fixed Width Programmer Fonts.
- I know some programmers who love Andale Mono, Anonymous, and the Terminus Font
- Consolas is a monospaced font, that takes advantage of the new ClearType font hinting technology and is bundled with Microsoft’s Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007, and is available for download for users of Microsoft Visual Studio.
There are just too many of these fonts out there. See which suits your needs best. If you are a programmer, why not share your favorite programming font in comments?
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