I’ve poked around at most of the “Best Programmer Font” lists on the net over the last year or two and have been pretty disappointed with the results. Quite a few of the top picks are non-scalable bitmap fonts that are painful to look at. When Microsoft released the new fonts (or some of them) that will ship with Windows Vista, I had a bit of new hope until I tried them. They’re nice, but they just don’t do it for me.
I found myself back at Lucida Console, again, until today when I came across Bitstream Vera Sans Mono in 100% TrueType format. If you’re looking for a nice monospaced font for programming and such, give it a look.
