Consolas

Posted by Mike Haller on Saturday, January 23. 2010 at 15:27 in Java
Dan writes about it, Sven & Vitaly are writing about it, Jeff, Scott and Steve found it years ago and are probably using it ever since. Many StackOverflow users do it as well. So why don't I?

Well, now I did and so far, it's promosing.
I switched from Courier New to Consolas.

Besides gaining some more space, it really looks much nicer.



But compare for yourself:



Consolas is a commercial font and if you're on Windows and have any of the Microsoft products installed, chances are that you already have Consolas installed on your system. If you don't, check out the other programming fonts features on Smashing Magazines articles.

Arthur
I am using it for nearly 2 years now and love the font :-)
Kai
@Arthur: I like the font but I don't like the colours you use in eclipse ;-)

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