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Microsoft Consolas - A cleartype font for code

January 23rd 2008 by Andrew Banks in ASP.NET / Visual StudioNo Comments »

I’ve stumbled upon a new(?) monospace font from Microsoft developed especially for  viewing code on systems that support ClearType.

Consolas is a monospaced font, designed by Lucas de Groot. It is a part of the new suite of fonts that take advantage of Microsoft’s ClearType font hinting technology. It is bundled with Microsoft’s Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007, and is available for download for users of Microsoft Visual Studio. Among the six Windows Vista fonts, Consolas is the most similar to Lucida Console or Courier New.

Although changing the font you develop in sounds like a minor thing, it does make staring at code for8+ hours a day much easier on the eye!