Best Programming Fonts

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Permalink Reply by Cameron Souza on October 21, 2008 at 1:09pm

BPMono rules! This is a good review of programming fonts.

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Permalink Reply by Attila Seress on December 11, 2008 at 10:42am

I've been pretty happy with the fonts and button generator at cooltext.com. It's handy for web apps.

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Permalink Reply by dote on December 14, 2008 at 7:32pm

Since Google came out with the droid font I love it ... I use it in TextMate with great success but not sure about its use with japanese characters.

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Permalink Reply by Calin West on December 14, 2008 at 7:42pm

I think Anonymous is hands down the easiest to read.



I didn't know about Droid. It also looks nice.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Folan on February 24, 2009 at 9:43pm

Nice link, I esp. like the way his examples highlight the 0 vs O. For me, lack of slashed (or dotted) zero is a deal breaker. Not just for coding but also console windows as well.

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Permalink Reply by Truman Leung on February 26, 2009 at 9:15am

Right now, I am enjoying Panic Sans installed by default in Coda.

Here's what some Japanese looks like in this font:

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Leuck on February 26, 2009 at 9:51am

I wasn't aware of Panic Sans. It looks like a nice programming font. I think the Japanese characters may be the result of dynamic font swapping. Some systems, such as Vista and certain apps, will transparently switch to a Japanese font if the current font doesn't have the necessary characters.

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