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Ok, I know for a fact that my friends list here has a very high percentage of UNIX geeks. It’s you to whom I speak now.
What is your favorite monospace / fixed-width font? If you say Courier New, you will be disqualified from the discussion. (Kidding, kidding. If you say Courier, you will be disqualified.)
The criteria for me are:
- character differentiation: I should be able to type iI1!lL and be able to tell what I typed (lower case i, upper case I, numeral 1, exclamation point, lower case L, upper case L). Same with oO0 (lower case o, upper case O, zero).
- reasonably full character set: I’d like to have a few extended characters beyond ASCII, for typesetting purposes. Things like bullets (•) and degrees symbols (°) are nice.
- font variants, mostly for typesetting, but also for some terminals: bold, italic options.
- availability: available online, in OTF (by preference) or TTF.
- price: free is good, cheap is acceptable, expensive is nice to know so I can dream.
What say you?
I’m using Droid Sans Mono in my ssh sessions
I’m using it under OS X, so YMMV, but I like Adobe’s Source Code Pro. I think it hits every point you were looking for, including “free”: http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro.html
… Courier?