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A good coding font makes a difference. Envy Code R, better than ever!

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activa 4 months, 11 days ago

blog.activa.be — Am I the only one who believes a great programming font can boost your productivity and increase your coding joy? Check out Damien Guard's superb new release of Envy Code R, my favorite coding font.

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posted by

powerrush 4 months, 10 days ago

The font isn't really that great, in my opinion. I prefer monaco.

posted by danielgary 4 months, 10 days ago

Monaco looks great on the Mac but it's patchy on Windows... an let's not get into the dubious grey area of installing an Apple copyrighted font on Windows.

[)amien

posted by

DamienG 4 months, 9 days ago

Oh and the fact Monaco doesn't give you bold or italics.

[)amien

posted by

DamienG 4 months, 9 days ago

Consolas for the win!

posted by dist0rti0n 4 months, 9 days ago

@DamienG

I'm not sure what copy of Monaco you are using, but bold and italics works fine for me.

posted by danielgary 4 months, 9 days ago

There is no bold or italic version of Monaco. If you are using it on Windows what you are seeing is Windows coming up with it's own faux bold and italic versions - neither of which will honour the original metrics of the regular font and thus ruin the monospaced nature preventing you from mixing regular and bold in your IDE.

As an example open Wordpad and type ABCDEFG| on one line then copy and paste it to two more, change the font to Monaco and make the second line bold and the third line "italic". You will see they no longer line up.

[)amien

posted by

DamienG 4 months, 9 days ago

For my laptop display, Consolas is the best choice for me. Envy looks like the scrawny and squarish X system font but with larger character spacings. It strains my eyes, so I quickly dropped it.

posted by spoulson 4 months, 8 days ago

ProFont - check it out.

posted by damo 4 months, 8 days ago