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Pick your fonts

by Harry Fuecks

When viewing your source code, can you tell the difference between zero and an upper case O? What about an upper case i and a lower case l?

If not, try ProFont, available on Mac, Linux and Windows and designed for programming, as explained here.

This entry was posted on Monday, February 23rd, 2004 at 3:55 am, contains 45 words, and is filed under PHP. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. The views and opinions in this blog post are those of its author.

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  1. lieut_data Says:
    February 23rd, 2004 at 12:09 pm

    My favourite font (so far) is:
    http://www.netalive.org/tinkering/triskweline/

    But check out
    http://keithdevens.com/wiki/ProgrammerFonts
    (Where profont is listed, interestingly enough…)

    And this one (funny)
    http://www.arcavia.com/Software/ProgFont/

     
  2. HarryF Says:
    February 23rd, 2004 at 4:27 pm

    Great links. There’s always someone who has to go to extreme though isn’t there - ProgFont is definately it.

     

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Harry has been working in corporate IT since 1994, with everything from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. Outside of office hours he runs phpPatterns: a site dedicated to software design with PHP that aims to raise standards of PHP development. He also maintains Dynamically Typed: SitePoint's PHP blog.

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