Inconsolata, monospace bliss.
October 3rd, 2007One of the programming social media sites I browse (either Reddit or Dzone, I can’t remember), had a link to a new font called Inconsolata. I haven’t switched programming fonts in quite a while, after dumping ProFont for Monaco again some months ago, but I’m giving this new font a try. I have to say, it feels really nice.
October 8th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
I like the font as well. I had been using Andale Mono, but now I am giving this one a whirl.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:11 am
One thing I don’t like about Inconsolata is that it is difficult to tell the difference between O & 0 (the capital letter and the number zero), as well as l, I, and 1 (lower case L, uppercase i, and the number one). Perhaps “difficult” is too strong a word, but for coding, I prefer a font that is really in-your-face about those characters. However, what I DO like about Inconsolata is that it’s open source. I downloaded a font-editing tool called Font Forge and modified the offending glyphs to my liking, and now I’m in programmer heaven.
March 7th, 2008 at 7:50 am
+1 Andale Mono refugee here. Thanks for the tip.