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Best VS Fonts and Settings EVER

published 5 months, 17 days ago, submitted by

dengar007 5 months, 18 days ago

frickinsweet.com — Okay the title is a bit over the top :) Recently I was playing around with the vs settings after reading Scott Hanselman's article on black/white IDE colors and came up with this. Take a look and let me know what you think. Maybe it will be your new color scheme in VS...

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Consolas for life!

posted by dist0rti0n 5 months, 18 days ago

viva la monaco! :)

posted by

dengar007 5 months, 18 days ago

I like Consolas, hate the color scheme. Tagged appropriately. ;-)

posted by

JudahGabriel 5 months, 17 days ago

Times New Roman is da bomb

posted by

powerrush 5 months, 17 days ago

Serifs can kiss my mofo ass.

posted by

yesthatmcgurk 5 months, 17 days ago

Arial, Comic Sans MS and Courier New!

posted by

wisemx 5 months, 17 days ago

No self respecting programmer should ever use Times New Roman, Courier, or whatever font is used by default in Visual Studio for programming editor. That is a clear sign of not taking thing seriously (you have a bad font, therefor you must write bad code)

If you can't immediately tell the difference between 0 (zero) and O (capitol o), 1 (one) and l (lower l), as well as having clear differentiation between { [ ( and the rest of the special characters at low font size (I don't use a font size bigger than 9), throw the font away. Also, fixed width fonts ONLY!!! You are a programmer reading code for freak sake! Save the other fonts for your blogs.

See here for more detail on programmer fonts:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000969.html
http://www.lowing.org/fonts/

posted by

cwbrandsma 5 months, 17 days ago

I prefer to code in Wingdings.

posted by

Jemm 5 months, 17 days ago

Dunno, may be my aging eyes but "Courier New" looks best to me here:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000969.html

posted by

wisemx 5 months, 17 days ago

@cwbrandsma - I see that our sarcasm has flown over your head.

posted by

powerrush 5 months, 17 days ago

I prefer Rob Conery's one.

posted by

simoneb 5 months, 17 days ago

@powerrush - if it had wouldn't I have said "you have a bad font, therefor you must write bad code".

But seriously: think of the poor kid who reads a statement like that and foolishly things Times New Roman is l33t. He/she could be scarred for years.

Then again, does any kid say l33t anymore? Maybe some scarring would be good.

posted by

cwbrandsma 5 months, 17 days ago

@simoneb I like his quite a bit too -- this just works out a little better for me.

posted by

dengar007 5 months, 16 days ago