Software Development Fonts

Consolas is my favourite development font. It is also the one that Jeff Atwood uses. Also check out his article on Programmer Fonts for some other good development fonts. Consolas comes with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005+ but who’s going to install that to get a font? You can get the font here.

Bitstream Vera is used by Gnome and is a really good family of fonts.

Why worry about fonts for programming? Happy with Courier New? Have a read of this.

Microsoft TrueType Core Fonts

These are the core fonts used by Microsoft Windows and include:

• Andale
• Arial
• Comic Sans
• Courier New
• Georgia
• Impact
• Times New Roman
• Trebuchet
• Verdana
• Webdings

The unaltered .exe files for these fonts can be downloaded here. The Cabextract RPM package for Linux systems can be downloaded here. This is available from the CoreFonts SourceForge project.

Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Windows Vista Fonts

Font Libraries

• Urban Fonts
• daFont
• Fonts 500
• TypeNow.net
• exljbris Font Foundry
• 101 Fonts for Designers