Voxeo Developers Corner

This has absolutely nothing to with “Voxeo” development tools, per se, but I thought it might be of interest to any of you out there who edit code in a text editor.  Adam Kalsey in our Voxeo Labs team recently pointed out this nice font, Anonymous Pro, that is a fixed-width sans-serif font specifically designed for coding:

I’m admittedly a sucker for anything related to typography, so I did have to check it out.  It’s a set of TrueType fonts for Windows, MacOS X and Linux developed by Mark Simonson and available for free under the Open Font License.  Code looks quite nice in the font when editing.

Another similar font I’ve enjoyed using is “Inconsolata” developed by Raph Levien and also available for free under the Open Font License:

You might ask – why does this matter? I mean, programming code doesn’t have any formatting when it’s compiled, so who cares about the font! Well… if you are working for much of the day using a code editor, it can be great to use a typeface that makes your code very readable on the computer screen or printed output.

What do you think? Are there other fonts that you’ve found you like to use for working with code? (There are many out there…)

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