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Consolas - A font for programmers!

Posted on July 3, 2007 under Visual Studio

I stumbled upon this font called Consolas which is recommended and created by Microsoft to use with Visual Studio 2005 (I’m not sure why just 2005), It’s a very good font for writing scripts, code, HTML, etc..

  • It’s monospaced (i.e. fixed width)
  • The characters ‘0′ and ‘o’ are very distinguishable (which helps avoid a common mistake)
  • It’s compact, compared to Courier New
  • It looks very pleasant

Make sure you have the ClearType effect turned on (Control Panel->Display->Appearance->Effects)

I’m glad I found this font, and that’s why I’m sharing it, It’s way better than Courier New which used to be my favorite actually.

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