{"id":1914,"date":"2009-05-17T20:42:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T00:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2013-10-29T13:29:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T18:29:41","slug":"top-10-programming-fonts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/17\/top-10-programming-fonts\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Programming Fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hivelogic.com\/articles\/view\/top-10-programming-fonts\/\">Dan Benjamin<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/hivelogic.com\/articles\/view\/top-10-programming-fonts\/\">\r\n<p>Inconsolata is my favorite monospaced font, and it&rsquo;s free. Shortly after discovering it, it quickly supplanted Deja Vu Sans Mono as my go-to programming font. I use it everywhere, from Terminal windows to code editors. It has a certain sublime style that&rsquo;s unique without being over the top, and it looks fantastic at both large and small sizes.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>He has some nice samples of syntax-highlighted code. I&rsquo;ve long preferred <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tobias-jung.de\/seekingprofont\/\">ProFont 9<\/a>, without anti-aliasing. However, I&rsquo;ve not been able to get it (<a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/15\/profontx\/\">or<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faisal.com\/software\/profontx\/\">ProFontX<\/a>) to <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2002\/10\/14\/profont_in_jaguars_termin\/\">work properly<\/a> in Cocoa applications, so I&rsquo;m currently using Monaco.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>Benjamin&rsquo;s top three are all pretty good. <a href=\"http:\/\/dejavu-fonts.org\/wiki\/index.php?title=Main_Page\">Deja Vu Sans Mono<\/a> is nice except for the zeroes. Inconsolata looks great at larger sizes, but at smaller sizes it has a little too much personality and funny equals signs. If I were going to use an anti-aliased font, I&rsquo;d probably choose Consolas or Monaco.\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Benjamin: Inconsolata is my favorite monospaced font, and it&rsquo;s free. Shortly after discovering it, it quickly supplanted Deja Vu Sans Mono as my go-to programming font. I use it everywhere, from Terminal windows to code editors. It has a certain sublime style that&rsquo;s unique without being over the top, and it looks fantastic at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[133,104,71],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-font","tag-fontsmoothing","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8119,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions\/8119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}