Other Hack 2 font for code editing - recommended

[Dave O]

Hi all,

If you're looking for a better code-editing font, I recommend the newly released (and free) Hack 2 font. I've been using it for the last week in B4A, and I think it's an improvement over the default font.

Here's a quick summary and the download:
http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/

 

[Jmu5667]

Nice Font, I have been using Consolas.

 

[JohnK]

personal fan of Lucinda console.

 

[Dave O]

Nice Font, I have been using Consolas.

To my non-typographer eye, Hack looks similar to Consolas (which I was using previously), but I like how Hack makes certain ambiguous characters less so (capital I vs. lowercase l, dot-zero, etc.).

I confess to having used Courier New back in the day, but there are now several excellent monospace fonts for us to choose from.

 

[Jmu5667]

To my non-typographer eye, Hack looks similar to Consolas (which I was using previously), but I like how Hack makes certain ambiguous characters less so (capital I vs. lowercase l, dot-zero, etc.).

I confess to having using Courier New back in the day, but there are now several excellent monospace fonts for us to choose from.

back in the day - prompt $p$g

 

[DonManfred]

I´m using the free font Source Code Pro. I like it

 

[Troberg]

I use the ordinary MS Sans Serif. I would like to make some smaller changes to it, such as making various special characters (such as +-*/.,()[]{]#^ et cetera) a Little fatter, spaces slightly wider and dotted zero, but I haven't got around to it.

Yeah, I know most people thinks it's heresy to use a proportional font for programming. I say that they haven't tried it.

 

[JohnK]

OK, now you got me wasting time looking at fonts... I now realised the problem with Lucinda. It doesn't clearly show the difference between a zero and a capital "O". After trying a couple, I settled on "PragmataPro". I tried "Source Code Pro" but found I had to run it at a lower font size to fit the same number of lines on my screen; 8pt as compared to 10pt for PragmataPro.

 

[Jmu5667]

OK, now you got me wasting time looking at fonts... I now realised the problem with Lucinda. It doesn't clearly show the difference between a zero and a capital "O". After trying a couple, I settled on "PragmataPro". I tried "Source Code Pro" but found I had to run it at a lower font size to fit the same number of lines on my screen; 8pt as compared to 10pt for PragmataPro.

Ha, I reverted back to Consolas 12 pt as my eyes are getting old, and yes I found myself wandering around font librarys