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Liberation Mono - Ultimate Coding / Source Code Font

• johns 19y ago
  It looks nice, but I haven't found anything I like more than Consolas on Windows.
• ComputerGuru 19y ago
  I use Consolas, and it's been my favorite until now. The thing is, Consolas is beautiful.. but not as functional as Liberation Mono. It's a very "plain" font, but for screenful after screenful of code, fancy isn't what I need. Liberation Mono isn't going to win any beauty awards, the MS typography team did a great job with their Vista fonts... But I think Liberation Mono is the ideal "productivity" font for hard-core coders.
  • illicium 19y ago
    Yep, Consolas is a very beautiful and functional typeface. Note: on Linux use a patched Cairo for better LCD subpixel rendering, set to sight hinting--it looks MUCH better than the default (cairo-lcd in Arch Linux AUR, Ubuntu comes with a tweaked version by default, afaik)
• nuggien 19y ago
  DejaVu Sans Mono for me.
  • SwellJoe 19y ago
    Me too. I've tried Liberation, but find it a bit smooshed, so I have to have a slightly bigger type to find it as readable (so, while it seems like more code would fit on a screen than DejaVu I end up with slightly less because I need it to be 11 point instead of 10).
    • ComputerGuru 19y ago
      Funny.. I found Liberation to be huge. At size 10, it's about the same pixel-size as Consolas at size 12!
      • SwellJoe 19y ago
        I've never used Consolas...but it's the small height of Liberation that bugs me. For some reason it hurts legibility for me far more than I would have expected. I'm trying it again, at 10 points just to see if maybe it was a "what I'm used to" thing, but I think I'll be going back to Deja Vu. I might give Consolas a try...I've heard so many good things about it. Screenshots don't make me love it, but one can't really know until using it for a while.