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I think this is what I've been waiting for.

Ubuntu Mono is nice but my eyes are not really good at detecting soft curves, I wanted something like Terminus[0] but with larger font sizes. (For some reason, I was unable to go beyond 10px with Terminus on Vim.)

[0]: http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/shots.html

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I highly recommend Inconsolata:

http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Inconsolata

Inconsolata is the poor mans version of the fantastic Consolas... alas, on non-windows platform Consolas looks like shit.

Consolas comes for free with Visual Studio (probably pre-installed on Windows 7/Vista too)

Funny, inconsolata as well doesn't look that great on Windows...

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/08/consolas-and-cleart...

Consolas looks just fine on OS X. A licensed version of it comes with BBEdit. The only curious thing about it I've noticed is that it requires good font smoothing--unaliased, it looks absolutely horrible.

It's also one of the very few monospaced fonts I've seen that has a true italic.

I think Ubuntu's monospace font has true italic? (I'm not a font expert, though.)

http://font.ubuntu.com/#charset-mono-regular-italic

Google's Droid Sans Mono is a pretty good copy of Consolas:

https://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Droid+Sans+Mono

You can get Consolas (and the other 'C' fonts) by installing MS Powerpoint Viewer.

I prefer Inconsolata-G. The differences are subtle.

http://leonardo-m.livejournal.com/77079.html

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