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For me, requirements for a good programming font are: - Easy to distinguish 1, l, and | - Zero with a slash - Lowercase g open on bottom (two circles is too
by jballanc 17y ago
For me, requirements for a good programming font are:
- Easy to distinguish 1, l, and |
- Zero with a slash
- Lowercase g open on bottom (two circles is too cluttered)
Surprisingly, with those simple rules the only font on the list that gets all 3 is Monaco. (My personal choice, Menlo, also gets all 3.)
- huhtenberg 17y ago> - Zero with a slash Debatable. Zero is typically narrower than uppercase O, so it is trivial to distinguish them even without the slash that merely adds to the visual noise.
- jballanc 17y agoSure, but that assumes that you have a 0 and an O sitting right next to each other to compare. That said, the reason I don't like dotted-0 is because I feel it's too noisy. I think a slash is the right balance...but that's me ;-)