Personally, i really enjoy using the Liberation fonts for both regular writing and software development: - Liberation Sans - metrically compatible with Arial

Personally, i really enjoy using the Liberation fonts for both regular writing and software development: - Liberation Sans - metrically compatible with Arial - Liberation Serif - metrically compatible with Times New Roman - Liberation Mono - metrically compatible with Courier New You can read more about them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts In my experience, Liberation Mono has really good information density while being easy on the eyes and also really readable. In addition, it seems to have pretty good unicode symbol support as well. Also, it remains readable at smaller font sizes as well, which comes in handy if you're working on an enterprise Java code and don't have a really big monitor. Overall, i'm glad that the font family exists, because it provides a good alternative to having to install MS fonts on *nix systems, which can be annoying at times, plus the fonts are actually included with LibreOffice, which i use nowadays. The Wikipedia page has a bit more information about the related fonts, but if you'd like to preview something that's a lot like Liberation Mono in the form of a webfont, have a look at Google Cousine: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cousine https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cousine