Your coding font of choice

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2005-07-22 11:36pm

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.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2005-07-23 12:03am

Default Xterm font, Lucida Console, or Vera Mono.

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2005-07-23 12:20am

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*

Post by **Dalton** » 2005-07-23 01:51am

When I code (and I refer to HTML and Javascript) I actually tend to prefer the Windows System font.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2005-07-23 10:43am

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.

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2005-07-23 01:34pm

Courier New. It does it's job more than enough to change it.

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2005-07-23 01:58pm

I will not rest until I have learned to code in Wingdings...

McC · Post by **McC** » 2005-07-23 02:26pm

Courier New. Be it HTML, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, Action Script, VBScript -- always always always Courier New.

Striderteen · Post by **Striderteen** » 2005-07-24 07:07am

I'm extremely fond of Verdana and use it for pretty much anything that doesn't *require* Times New Roman.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2005-07-24 10:58am

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?

HyperionX · Post by **HyperionX** » 2005-07-24 02:32pm

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.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2005-07-24 04:02pm

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.

HyperionX · Post by **HyperionX** » 2005-07-24 06:15pm

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).

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2005-07-24 06:16pm

Would you get the stick out of your ass please?

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2005-07-24 10:26pm

Blame the publisher.

TimothyC · Post by **TimothyC** » 2005-07-24 11:03pm

Courier New For Java, and Lucida Console for html.