ASP.NET without ASP.NET - A good coding font makes a difference

Monday, May 26, 2008

Am I the only one who believes a great programming font can boost your productivity and increase your coding joy?

Personally, when I'm using a nice, clean font for my coding, I feel happy about my code. The code just looks better. And I don't mean it "looks" better, but it looks better (catch my drift?)

I have tried a lot of fonts, and for the last few years I've always gone back to Damien Guard's excellent Envy Code R font. It is (IMHO) the perfect font for source code.

Today Damien released "Preview #7" of his font, which is a big step forward: the font looks almost perfect at all sizes. I really recommend it to anyone. And it's free! (he does accept donations, which he really deserves)

The link to his announcement: Envy Code R Preview #7 released

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Monday, May 26, 2008 12:13:51 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

Comments [7] -

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:10:56 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

I agree with what you're saying, but its all about Consolas man! (IMHO) :)

Donn Felker

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:46:37 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

Give me Fixedsys any day!

Anon

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 11:19:59 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

Installed! Thanks for the tip. I really enjoy this font.

Gvim font updated
set guifont=Envy\ Code\ R

Sumpygump

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 1:49:03 AM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

@donn: Yeah Consolas is great for large sizes providing that double-stor lower case g doesn't get on your nerves... or you don't need many symbols/box drawing... or want italics in Visual Studio ;-)

[)amien

Damien Guard

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 4:51:20 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

@damien

You made a similar comment on dotnetkicks about monaco. Yet italics and bold work just fine for both monaco and consolas... so it must be just you.

Mark

Friday, May 30, 2008 12:30:51 AM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

@mark: There is no bold or italic versions of Monaco so Windows will fake one for you. But it will not be the same width as the regular version and mixing it will mean chars don't line up properly.

Try it - details on my DNK comment.

[)amien

Damien Guard

Friday, May 30, 2008 10:31:49 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

No one will take my Courier New away from me, ever :) Maybe someday... Good link