Best font for coding [duplicate]

Solution 1:

I like Consolas a lot. This top-10 list is a good resource for others. It includes examples and descriptions.

Solution 2:

Funny, I was just researching this yesterday!

I personally use Monaco 10 or 11 for the Mac, but a good cross platform font would have to be Droid Sans Mono: http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/droid-sans-mono-great-coding-font Or DejaVu sans mono is another great one (goes under a lot of different names, will be Menlo on SNow leopard and is really just a repackaged Prima/Vera) check it out here: Prima/Vera... Check it out here: http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/index.php?title=Download