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Chris Maunder wrote: the Consolas font I've been suing for coding
I hope you've got some good lawyers! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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If only they used a decent font.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Cosmix.org's Droid Sans Mono Slashed is the one I prefer.
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Good for even size less than 8.
Anil
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I've been using Source Code Pro[^] for a couple of years.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I just went through the Adobe rigmarole to test out this "Source Code Pro" font. You have to have their application running to use the "free" font! I have tested it and it is just not good enough, "Consolas" gives me a better editing environment and I don't have to sign up for endless junk-mail and a monitoring program to use it. I have uninstalled it but their is no mechanism to close or delete my "account" with Adobe. Also when I tried to unsubscribe from their emails it said "page not found" once I clicked the unsubscribe button.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: when I tried to unsubscribe from their emails it said "page not found" once I clicked the unsubscribe button
Don't worry; they're not totally incompetent.
Their spam servers work perfectly.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Thanks, that was a lot simpler. I still prefer Consolas though! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Odd, I tried it and didn't like it as much. Might be worth revisiting.
Jeremy Falcon
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Webdings. Makes coding fun.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Every so often I think "I'll ask the guys in the Lounge. They are so sensible and mature"
And then it takes me several months of amnesia for that thought to find its way back into my head. 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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But they have good memories. Here is another movie quote:
You make a place for things... things come.
Which movie?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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You are a silly bugger, most of us come here to be amused. You want a reasonable answer you go to Q&A hah hah hah.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Ah. You must be the sole surviving APL programmer out there.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Use a narrow font:
1. saves space,
2. uses up less pixels (so screen lasts longer)
3. and with the code being shorter easier to understand when looking back at it years later
But seriously, maintaining a few [on-]sites (and some off sites) I just stick with defaults, VS pro at home and 2010 on some client sites for quick rebuilds, farting about with fonts settings is off the table.
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the "Any" key may be continuate
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Envy Code R, designed for coding: Envy Code R preview #7 (scalable coding font) » DamienG[^] (it's not really a preview; it was released years ago).
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
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that's very tight. good for long lines. Not easy on the eyes though.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I still use Consolas: it's non-proportional, so columns line up, "1" and "l" are visually different, and "0" is barred so it's distinct from "O".
Works for me, so I haven't looked at changing it - I'd probably spend far too long deciding, and then get bored with in a week later!
Generally speaking, I stick to a limited number of fonts: Calibri for emails, Verdana for "normal" text in documents, Consolas for non-proportional work, Arial Bold when I need emphasis.
And "Heart Breaking Bad" when I want to annoy people.
Heart Breaking Bad Font | dafont.com[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Thanks for the link to the Heart Breaking Bad Font.
At first I thought that it was BAD and BROKEN.
Then I discovered if you just pressed Caps Lock and then didn't use any punctuation like some younger folk do, then it was brilliant.
Just replied to an email from the Professor of Chemistry @ UM using it.
Don't worry, I am not enrolled in any courses, so no downgraded marks.
It is fun to read but not so good as a coding font.
Agree with your post re your font choices completely.
....and thanks again for Heart Breaking Bad Font. Annoyingly good fun and I will use it again.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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There's Lucidia Console
Or visit Top 10 Programming Fonts[^].
I worry about 0 vs O; {} vs (), and a few other items that could cause mishaps with my visual cortex's point of view. Yours may differ.
Modify 1:
Grrrrr. Thanks to your post I browsed FontSquirral a bit and got hold of:
Inconsolata
Fira
Courier-Prime Code
Now I need to give them a test-drive
Modify 2:
I just loaded Courier Prime Code into Expressions 4. It's very easy on the eyes. Not related to its ubiquitous namesake at all.
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modified 11-Nov-16 12:48pm.
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I use Inconsolata on a Mac for Sublime text and so far I find it to be a very useful replacement for Consolas in the Mac world.
Jeremy Falcon
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Right now I an using "Input Font" (I think it is called). I have also looked at "Hack", which is not bad. I really look for slashed zeros amd good differentiation between 'ell' and 'one'
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There is a considerable body of research that says that the harder the font is to read the more you are aware of (and concentrate on) the content - so 8pt Windings it is.
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Courier New - Now that you mention it, I need to try something new.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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