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출처: Finding the Best Programmer’s Font

Good Programming Font Criteria



  • Crisp clear characters.
  • Extended characterset.
  • Good use of whitespace.
  • ‘l’, ‘1’ and ‘i’ are easily distinguished
  • ‘0’, ‘o’ and ‘O’ are easily distinguished
  • forward quotes from back quotes are easily distinguished -prefer mirrored appearance
  • Clear punctuation characters, especially braces, parenthesis and brackets

Fonts Reviewed (Best Listed First) (View All)(Name, Sizes, Type, Description, Download Info)



  1. Bitstream Vera Sans Mono (View Sample)

    • 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 36, 48, 72
    • TrueType
    • Plenty of space between lines, dotted zeros, clean.
    • http://www.gnome.org/fonts/

  2. ti92pluspc (View Sample)

  3. Crystal (View Sample)

  4. Monaco (View Sample)

  5. Anonymous (View Sample)

  6. Andale Mono (View Sample)

  7. Raize (View Sample)

  8. ProFontWindows (View Sample)

  9. Sheldon (View Sample)

  10. BSU Kermit (View Sample)

  11. Lucida Sans Typewriter Regula (View Sample)

  12. Courier New (View Sample)

  13. Courier (View Sample)

    • 10, 12, 15
    • TrueType
    • Clean but spread out, no zero treatment.
    • Installed with Windows

  14. Lucida Consolev (View Sample)

  15. ProggyTiny (View Sample)

  16. ProggyClean (View Sample)

  17. Fixedsys (View Sample)

  18. Topaz-8 (View Sample)

    • 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 36, 48, 72
    • TrueType
    • Amiga Topaz-8. Little space between lines, slashed zeros, fat/squat text
    • http://66.167.72.10/Topaz-8.zip

  19. Free Monospaced (View Sample)

  20. MS Mincho (View Sample)

    • 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 36, 48, 72
    • TrueType
    • No Zero treatment, clear text
    • Installed with Windows or Office. Try Google.

  21. Hyperfont (View Sample)

  22. Squareshooter Mono (View Sample)