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Sure, we all love to type, but what about the end result on-screen?

Mine is Bitstream Vera Sans Mono for coding. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Vera)
It's the easiest on the eyes for me when working in a terminal, and is really easy to read.

As for serif typefaces, I like Garamond. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garamond)
It's very elegant, and comes with Photoshop last I checked which is neat ;o
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I'm quite partial to Comic Sans

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But seriously, I think I like the Segoe variant used for Windows Phone 7.
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DejaVu Sans Mono.

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On Windows I like Lucida Grande, Verdana and Profont. On OS X I like Lucida Grande, Menlo and Courier / Courier New.
webwit wrote:DejaVu Sans Mono.

I like that to.
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For coding I personally like Envy Code R.
You can find it here: http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-coding-font-released
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For my shell operations i'm kinda like the terminus-font. Very eye-friendly . For my text-processing i have no special favorite but i like the DejaVu fonts too, because it's open source and it's in the default installation of many distributions.
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Comic Sans dissing is an unfortunate Hipster phenomenon the world over.
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Courier4L.
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Coding & Terminal:

http://font.gohu.eu/ @ 14px cause I'm blind like that. Love this one.
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Calibri. Yeah, yeah, I'm a Windows fanboy.
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Bitstream Vera/DejaVu are the best fonts for coding. A good coding/console font should be quite narrow. Courier and Lucida Console can just go and die.
Before Vera I prefered fixed-semicondensed-12, that used to be the default under X. Not a scalable font, though.
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No contest.

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ZX Spectrum. What did I win?
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webwit wrote:ZX Spectrum. What did I win?

Kudos. :geek:
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Helvetica on my iPad.

I am hoping everyone on KBDthority buys one.

The Helvetica Mod here.
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The trick with fonts is to match them to the subject at hand.
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Quake Font
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DejaVu Sans Mono for terminal work, Times and Ariel for everything else.

I am a square.
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Ripster take a look at this:

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They used Comic Sans in the Troophy of Copa del Rey here in Spain...ridiculous!
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I like Futura, and I think it looks great on Filcos. Too bad I use blank key caps.

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And since everyone is listing their favorite terminal and coding fonts, I like courier new 10-point. :)
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The Filco's Futura keys are the nicest available, aesthetically speaking. Helvetica looks good on the Model M, but it looks too old-school on modern keyboards. Futura fits much better.
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consolas w/ cleartype is great on windows. my daily driver
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wanabe wrote:consolas w/ cleartype is great on windows. my daily driver

This is what I use for SQL coding and web development.
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i think i like helvetica
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(yes supposedly a Frutiger ripoff but the rounded dots on the i's and periods are enough for me.

I own none of them except for Helvetica on my old G3 Mac and Segoe UI.
We should do a
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I like

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Using it on basically everything but my text editor. I'm using Consolas there.
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Trebuchet FTW!!!

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I figured the site needed more Dog Pictures and I got to get to 500!!!!

Oh, I'm at 503. I sure post a lot.
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I've been writing a lot of documents in the last 18 months and I've been using Liberation Serif, just because it's not Times New Roman.
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This is all nice and all but the real challenge is identifying the Noppoo font.

No cheating. Must use pics.
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soo dark cant see the letters..
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Hi there, everybody! This is my first post here.

Anyway, my favorite coding/terminal font is inconsolata. I don't really have any other favorite font.
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