What font do you code in?

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Chad Greene
Chad Greene on 27 Mar 2015
Answered: 银雀Sparr0w on 15 May 2023
What font do you use for coding? Clearly the best typeface for coding is Curlz MT, but are there any others? I'm looking for readability and easy 1, l and 0, O distinction.
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James Li
James Li on 31 Dec 2021
Just realized Curlz MT was a joke. Kudos
Jiannan Zhang
Jiannan Zhang on 31 Oct 2022
Curlz MT is really the best, try it out

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Answers (9)

Star Strider
Star Strider on 27 Mar 2015
I use Consolas (Windows) for Editor and Command Window fonts. It’s a fixed-width sans-serif font with a slant-through zero and easily recognisable letters and symbols. I don’t have Curlz MT on this machine, so I can’t compare them.

Stephen23
Stephen23 on 27 Mar 2015
Edited: Stephen23 on 2 Nov 2022

Trong Nguyen Van
Trong Nguyen Van on 4 Oct 2016
I'm using Consolas with size 11. Because, i get used to coding with this font on Visual or CodeBlocks. My matlab doesn't support Curlz MT.

Jan
Jan on 13 Aug 2020
Andale Mono and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.
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Johann
Johann on 9 Feb 2023
Yes! How can yo set this fonts in Matlab?
Jan
Jan on 9 Feb 2023
Install the fonts onyour computer. Under Windows there are 2 options: Install for the current user or for all users with admin privilegs. Matlab does not recognize fonts installed for the current user only, so choose option 2.

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Jaber Gharib
Jaber Gharib on 8 May 2018
The best ids Consolas I suppose

Carey Smith
Carey Smith on 13 Aug 2020
I prefer Lucida Console: You can tell the differences between 1l & I, and 0 and O.
Plus it's mon-spaced, so code indentation lines up and number arrays line up.

John D'Errico
John D'Errico on 13 Aug 2020
Edited: John D'Errico on 16 Aug 2020
Personally, I like a font that puts a slash of some sort through the zeros. Without that, the zero and uppercase O seem too close to me, too easy to mistake. You also need fonts with a serif, as that really helps to distinguish betweel a lower case l, the number 1, and an upper case I, even lower case i.
Monaco is my choice. And monospaced is really important for coding. Never program in a proportionally spaced font.
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John D'Errico
John D'Errico on 16 Aug 2020
I went back, and after a fair amount of play with every choice of font I had, I find my preference to be strongly just plain old Monaco. Monospaced. Nice distinction between the letters and numbers in question.
DGM
DGM on 2 Nov 2022
I have a fond place in my heart for a crispy 9pt bitmapped Monaco; that said, there are a number of fonts called Monaco that visually have nothing to do with that or each other. I just use whatever the "Monospaced" alias points to (seems to be DejaVu Sans Mono 10). I might like a dot or crossbar on 0, but I'll survive.

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IronDay
IronDay on 24 Oct 2020
Fonts: Seorgio UI Plain
size: 12

银雀Sparr0w
银雀Sparr0w on 15 May 2023
Inconsolata is great

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