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Your coding font of choice
Posted: 2005-07-22 11:36pm
by Durandal
All right coders, what is your coding font of choice? And if you say Comic Sans, it means that you're a pussy.
Personally, I prefer Courier. Aaaaah, good ole Courier.
Posted: 2005-07-23 12:03am
by Pu-239
Default Xterm font, Lucida Console, or Vera Mono.
Posted: 2005-07-23 12:20am
by Utsanomiko
I break out in a cold sweat over the very sight of brackets; when I have to do HTML, I stay in Notepad and its sterile lettering. Can't recall a thing about what my C++ class code looked liek in 12th grade.
I do write my design notes in Courier, though.
...Yeah, that's my contribution. *Slinks out*
Posted: 2005-07-23 01:51am
by Dalton
When I code (and I refer to HTML and Javascript) I actually tend to prefer the Windows System font.
Posted: 2005-07-23 10:43am
by phongn
I generally use
ProFont. I'd love to use
Pragmata but it is something like EUR90 and I'm not willing to spend that much cash on just a coding font.
Anonymous is also a good one and not a few people like
Andale Mono.
Eben Sorkin is working on a nice one. Finally, Microsoft's
Consolas looks to be an excellent coding font. It is not yet publically released but if you have access to any of the Longhorn pre-release builds it should be in there.
This site has numerous links to programming fonts.
WinFX (when coupled with Avalon) will finally have true OpenType font support (e.g. ligatures, contextual alternatives, etc.) I have a few very nice OT fonts which I can barely use unless I fire up InDesign; Microsoft Word doesn't touch the advanced OT features and LaTeX can't either unless you jump through flaming hoops.
Posted: 2005-07-23 01:34pm
by Comosicus
Courier New. It does it's job more than enough to change it.
Posted: 2005-07-23 01:58pm
by Drooling Iguana
I will not rest until I have learned to code in Wingdings...
Posted: 2005-07-23 02:26pm
by McC
Courier New. Be it HTML, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, Action Script, VBScript -- always always always Courier New.
Posted: 2005-07-24 07:07am
by Striderteen
I'm extremely fond of Verdana and use it for pretty much anything that doesn't *require* Times New Roman.
Posted: 2005-07-24 10:58am
by Durandal
Striderteen wrote:I'm extremely fond of Verdana and use it for pretty much anything that doesn't *require* Times New Roman.
... for
coding? You use a
proportional font?
Posted: 2005-07-24 02:32pm
by HyperionX
Durandal wrote:Striderteen wrote:I'm extremely fond of Verdana and use it for pretty much anything that doesn't *require* Times New Roman.
... for
coding? You use a
proportional font?
That's actually possible. My C++ book writes all code in a proportional font.
Though I don't, courier new all the way for me.
Posted: 2005-07-24 04:02pm
by Durandal
HyperionX wrote:Durandal wrote:Striderteen wrote:I'm extremely fond of Verdana and use it for pretty much anything that doesn't *require* Times New Roman.
... for
coding? You use a
proportional font?
That's actually possible. My C++ book writes all code in a proportional font.
Though I don't, courier new all the way for me.
Burn that book. It's sacrilege.
Posted: 2005-07-24 06:15pm
by HyperionX
Durandal wrote:HyperionX wrote:Durandal wrote:
... for coding? You use a proportional font?
That's actually possible. My C++ book writes all code in a proportional font.
Though I don't, courier new all the way for me.
Burn that book. It's sacrilege.
Really? This is the book:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ce&s=books
This is author:
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/homepage.html
Some balls to accuse his book of being sacrilege (if you figure out who he is).
Posted: 2005-07-24 06:16pm
by Durandal
Would you get the stick out of your ass please?
Posted: 2005-07-24 10:26pm
by Pu-239
Blame the publisher.
Posted: 2005-07-24 11:03pm
by TimothyC
Courier New For Java, and Lucida Console for html.