This post isn’t going to make much sense to a lot of you .. But when you spend most of your day staring at source code, having a really nice font can make a big difference. It needs to be readable, to save your eyes, it needs to have unambiguous characters, 1 vs l vs | etc., and it needs to look nice.

Today I decided I needed a new font, and in the process stumbled across the very cool Monospace/Fixed Width Programmer’s Fonts page.

I quite like Monaco, and Anonymous is nice too. They’re monospace, but they don’t look quite as old skool as your usual monospace font.

Linux types just need to download the .ttf files and drop them in ~/.fonts.

Ok back to work now!