Inconsolata

I discovered Inconsolata two years ago or so, and it's been my go-to monospaced font ever since. I have it set to 11 points anti-aliased and it just looks gorgeous!

For your viewing pleasure, here is what my typical development environment looks like (anti-aliased retina 11pt Inconsolata):

http://akhun.com/seo/skitch/Screen_Shot_2012-07-19_at_10.17....

I love Inconsolata, except for one small thing: the curly quotation marks.

If you have that same quibble, good news: Inconsolata-dz[1]. Inconsolata with straight quotes.

[1]: http://nodnod.net/2009/feb/12/adding-straight-single-and-dou...

I included Inconsolata in my programmatic comparison of programming fonts:

http://1overn.com/2011/01/31/iterating-on-font-pair-comparis...

Consolas vs. Inconsolata: http://1overn.com/2011/01/31/iterating-on-font-pair-comparis...

Droid Sans Mono vs. Inconsolata: http://1overn.com/2011/01/31/iterating-on-font-pair-comparis...

Not free but i've used Pragmata over the last years. http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragmatapro.htm

How to change Chrome's default (crappy) monospace font:

1. Go to chrome://settings/fonts

2. Click the dropdown for "Fixed-width font"

I love Inconsolata on the printed page and it's my go-to font for code listings in LaTeX, but it wasn't really designed for display. On the screen, I prefer something with nice bitmaps at smaller sizes, like Anonymous Pro.

If anyone uses Windows here, note that this font is going to look much worse for you than it does on Mac or Linux. I use the Inconsolata-g variant[1] on Xubuntu and love it, but to my chagrin, it looked wretched on the Windows machine at work: jagged edges everywhere.

The Google Web Fonts version of the original Inconsolata — which has apparently been "properly hinted for Windows"[2] — was a major improvement, but still lacks the buttery smoothness the font has on Linux.

This discrepancy seems to be due to a Linux font setting that lets you choose "slight", "medium" or "full" hinting, with slight being the default. If I choose full, I get the more squared-off, digital-looking font appearance I associate with Windows. I don't have a Mac, but based on screenshots in this thread, the appearance is the same as Linux.

Anyway, good to see Inconsolata getting some attention. A very well-made font.

[1] http://leonardo-m.livejournal.com/77079.html

[2] http://pgl.yoyo.org/bits/tech/inconsolata-cleartype-raph-lev...

No truetype font will replace a pixel perfect bitmapped font. Not until we have displays with ridiculous dpi. And until that happens you can't beat terminus as it's perfect.

Yes, I know it's meant for print, but people here mention it in the context of using it on the screen as well.

This is by far my favorite programming font. Has been since Office 2007. You should also check out Inconsolata for Powerline, especially in Vim.

https://github.com/skwp/dotfiles/tree/master/fonts

I have been using Inconsolata since about a year ago. I was an avid user of tiny pixel fonts, but I felt an increasing amount of strain on my eyes. This worried me since I'm only 23, so I went out to look for bigger fonts. Pixel fonts look horrible in bigger sizes, and I was never a fan of anti-aliasing, so it took me a while before I found something I liked. Inconsolata made me switch, and I never looked back.

Screenshot for great justice! http://shot.ninjaloot.se/20120719.201001.png

I love Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. Looks great at large sizes too!

Is it me or does t not match the style of the other letters?

I tried this and loved it, but it lacks one of the two prime weights (bold, ital), can't remember which. That hurts it because a lot of code editing for me takes place in an environment where all three weights are used, and it kills the monospaced-ness.

Ricty(http://save.sys.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yusa/fonts/ricty.html) user here, I love how it it is just enough "serified" for better readability

Inconsolata has been my font of choice for many years now whenever I have to use antialiased fonts or when I want a large font. It beats all others for readability.

For most of my programming/terminal work, however, I use Proggy Clean, non-antialiased. The amount of context you can put on the screen this way is amazing. Also, once you use a well-designed non-antialiased font for a while, you will have a hard time going back to the fuzzy outlines of vector fonts. I think a retina-quality display will obviate the need for fonts like Proggy Clean, though.

I like this font, but its hinting on Linux sometimes makes it unusable. I keep jumping between Inconsolata-g, Clean, Consolas, Anka/Coder, and Andale Mono, because each one of them has something that just bugs the hell out of me.

I'm still looking for a font that has clean hinting at 8pt on Linux, that doesn't have absolutely atrocious features, and that has a reasonable number of symbols on the mathematical and non-Latin Unicode planes. Fontconfig with Infinality patches helps, but not enough.

having seen a few blogs about this in the past I tried out Inconsolata before, but always reverted back to DejaVuSansMono as I never had much luck with Inconsolata and Konsole.. specifically, the problem I have is:

http://imgur.com/a/oy0uW

the top one is Inconsolata, the bottom one DejaVu.. anyone else come across this behaviour before? I'm never sure of what to google to get it sorted.. and haven't managed to figure it out

I like M+, a font designed by a japanese.

In particular, I use M+ 1m regular. I like it because I'm shortsighted, so when I put it in 14pt, I can see very clearly.

I tried Inconsolata few times, but i could never stick with it...

My history of programming fonts goes something like this:

- i know they were mono

- Dejavu sans / vera sans mono

- proggy clean (back in the days of low resolution, i really loved it )

(switched to mac)

- monaco

- andale mono

Once in a while i try some other font, but i keep returning to Andale Mono. (best MS product ever? :)

What I'd like to see (Monty Python Gumby) is some dates on his web page. Maybe a GitHub page. I got Incosolata a few years ago and have been using it since, but he says he's working on it. When was the last update?

I love this font. Someone on here recommended it to me last year when I was in need of a fixed-width font that looked decent at larger point sizes (I was dealing with some cataract issues at the time).

Inconsolata is great for writing URLs in papers because they don't have that blocky look, and they don't stick out on the page from being twice as wide as your serif fonts.

Been a really happy DejaVu Sans Mono 10 user for a while now. It was tough choosing between that and Inconsolata.

Inconsolata does not look crisp at small sizes for me in Ubuntu. Liberation Mono 9 is better for me.

I'm guessing this is here again just because Matt Cutts tweeted it?

recent awesome discovery: you can use Inconsolata in your google docs to paste in code samples and whatnot, available from the Add Fonts item in the font picker.

I currently use this on my 3270 emulator ;)

I prefer Anonymous because it it's legible at low resolutions. Any font can take advantage of high resolution, it opens up a lot of freedom to the artist.