programming fonts

[Sarah Reichelt]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Richard Gaskin
<ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> Over the years I've found the Courier's serifs distracting on screen, and
> Monaco's glyph shapes vaguely unpleasant at 12 pts (used to use it all the
> time back when screen res was lower an 9pt was acceptable).
>
> So over the last year I find myself using Andale Mono for most of my
> scripting, and to my eye it's nearly ideal with one near-fatal glitch: the
> descending tail on the comma is shorter than in most fonts, and at a glance
> is difficult to distinguish from a period.
>
> I started to look around for a good programmer's font, but there are just
> too many to download and evaluate them all so I thought I'd check in with
> you folks here:
>
> What's your favorite font for use in your script editor?


I use Verdana 11pt in GLX2.
I would prefer a mono-spaced font, but like you, I have rejected
Courier & Monaco so I chose clarity over spacing.

I might try ProFont as Mark suggests and see how that looks.

Cheers,
Sarah