I switched over to the Bistream Vera family ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Vera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Vera ) since it looked decent a

I switched over to the Bistream Vera family ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Vera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Vera ) since it looked decent and had bold/oblique for the monospace font. I also switched some of my other applications over to use the variable width fonts in the family for consistency.