Good font for code presentations?

Fonts

Fonts Problem Overview

There's a couple of good questions regarding screen fonts for coding.

I'm putting together some Keynote presentations that will contain

  • code fragments

  • screen dumps of terminal windows

And the usual Courier display is looking a bit tired.

What are some good fonts for each of these? I'm especially interested in the terminal window dumps, to make sure they are legible. Or perhaps I can cut and paste the characters from the terminal window and apply some formatting to make it look screen-dumpish?

My main goal are

  • legible on screen and in printed outlines

  • the screen dump especially should be legible, but still identifiable as a screen dump

  • demonstrate I'm a person of visual taste and refinement, lol.

Fonts Solutions

Solution 1 - Fonts

I prefer Consolas.

Solution 2 - Fonts

If you are doing a presentation, and you don't care about anything lining up, Verdana is a good choice.

If you are going to distribute your presentation, use a font that you know is on everyone's machine, since using something else is going to cause the machine to fall back to one of the common fonts (like Arial or Times) anyway.

If you do care about things lining up, and are not distributing the presentation, consider Consolas:

alt text

It is highly legible, reminiscent of Verdana, and is monospaced. The color choices are, of course, a matter of taste.

Solution 3 - Fonts

I do a lot of such presentation and use Monaco for code and Chalkboard for text (within a template that, overall, has only small changes from the Blackboard one supplied with Keynote). Look at any of my presentations' PDFs (e.g. this one) and you can decide whether you like the effect.

Solution 4 - Fonts

I'm personally very fond of Inconsolata

Solution 5 - Fonts

Do you want people to focus on the content, and demonstrate that you're a person of taste and good sense? Stay with Courier. Don't innovate just because you can (otherwise, why not craft exquisite animations for every slide transition, with dancing letters...?).

Courier has several advantages:

  1. Excellent readability in low resolutions.
  2. Fixed width preserves indentation.
  3. Serifed fonts link letters, allowing people to understand words and identifiers as a whole (gestalt perception). Nonserifed fonts should only be used for headlines.
  4. Tried and true: people will immediately understand it's code.

If you want to dump point 4, at least choose an alternative that preserves points 1-3. Never allow form to trump function.

Solution 6 - Fonts

  • Lucida Console (good, but a little short)
  • Lucida Sans Typewriter (taller, smaller character set)
  • Andale Mono is very clear

But this has been answered here before.

Solution 7 - Fonts

I use DejaVu Sans Mono at Size 16.

UPDATE : I have switched to Envy Code R for coding and Anonymous Pro for terminal

Solution 8 - Fonts

I like Calibri.

Categories
Recommended Fonts Solutions

Previous Solution:

JavaScript - Test for an integer

Javascript

Next Solution:

Will an 'empty' constructor or destructor do the same thing as the generated one?

C++ClassOopConstructorDestructor

Attributions

All content for this solution is sourced from the original question on Stackoverflow.

The content on this page is licensed under the Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.

Content TypeOriginal AuthorOriginal Content on Stackoverflow
QuestionMark HarrisonView Question on Stackoverflow
Solution 1 - FontsAndrew WeirView Answer on Stackoverflow
Solution 2 - FontsRobert HarveyView Answer on Stackoverflow
Solution 3 - FontsAlex MartelliView Answer on Stackoverflow
Solution 4 - FontsbaudtackView Answer on Stackoverflow
Solution 5 - FontsPontus GaggeView Answer on Stackoverflow
Solution 6 - FontslavinioView Answer on Stackoverflow
Solution 7 - FontsIbn SaeedView Answer on Stackoverflow
Solution 8 - FontsGeoView Answer on Stackoverflow