Hmm, ProggyClean looks pretty nice in my editor! The only improvement I could think to make would be to make the dots in punctuations a four-pixel block instead of the two vertical pixels they use. ++!

Try ProggyClean with Slashed 0 (zero) and Bold Punctuation. I think I may have just found a replacement for Lucida Console.

Jack

Oddly enough, the only things on my system that aren't switched are the X11 windows, because I don't understand how to install it there. {grin} Mac OSX makes it easy to drop TTF into ~/Library/Fonts, and then select that for all carbon apps instantly. I have no clue how to do that for X11, not being a big X11 user.

Aye, pitching in another vote for Vera Sans Mono. Vera Serif is a nice serif font, and Vera Sans is a very nice sans-serif font, but Vera Sans Mono is just drop dead gorgeous.

I generally use 9pt in my 1400×1050 resolution.

Windows people probably want to fetch the Vera zip file from December14.net.

merlyn: installing it for X11 isn't too hard, just a little tedious. Look for the “font deuglification howto.”

Makeshifts last the longest.

Switching back to Courier made all the difference in the world.

I wasn't sure, so I looked. 10 point Courier New. Then I checked my putty configuration, and found 9 point Courier New. I don't find parens and braces hard to distinguish at those sizes. Must be a personal taste thing. I tried Lucida Console for a while, but switched back.

If you use good syntax highlighting then the fonts becomes less important... For example, if the colon is displayed in green, and the semicolon in blue then you will easily see the difference...

(Unless ofcourse when you have the bad luck to be colourblind)

Verdana, 10
This is what the default font was in SciTE and I never felt the need to change it. It's not fixed width, but I don't really care most of the time.

xterm*faceName: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Bold
xterm*faceSize: 10
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set guifont=luxi\ mono\ 10
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Not sure if it can be found for non-X11 users, but I'm a big fan of the 'neep' font in the jmk font package. http://www.jmknoble.net/fonts.

Available here (Win, Mac, Unix).

Thanks for the tip. That's the first fixed-pitch font I ever saw that was readable at 5-point on a 17" lcd.

It's available to download free here

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Silence betokens consent.

Love the truth but pardon error.

I like to adjust the fonts in different applications, This sometimes causes problems since not all applications handle this well. It makes GUI developers nervous when they see you messing with their application's fonts and colors, because these features are often not well tested and you are likely to find problems.

I use gvim to edit code. When the monitor intensity is turned down I use the gvim default color scheme. When the intensity is cranked up I use the color scheme 'morning', which reduces the intensity of the background.

The X setting for the font is:

-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-m-*-iso8859-2
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