Consolas: A Programmer’s Dream Font, from Microsoft?

Posted on Tue, 25th July 2006 at 09:21 under Reviews, Coding, Pictures

Yes, indeed. Praise where praise is due. Microsoft has made available for download a Truetype scalable font designed for programmers. It is monospaced, clear, readable and anti-aliases well. I’ve been using it for a while now on both Windows and Linux.

The kicker for programmers is that the punctuation glyphs are oversized, so avoiding the common problem of having to squint at the screen to tell the difference between a comma and a full-stop,

Behold, and download, Consolas. A picture tells a thousand words.

Code in a Consolas Style

Ain’t those the funkiest question marks you’ve ever seen?! :)

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  1. I’ve been using Consolas for a couple months now, and I love it!

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