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I just changed the default font on my VS.NET installation to Lucida
Console from the default Courier New font
and boy does it look good on Clear
Type. Did you know that the default font in Notepad on XP is Lucida?
“Programmers have very particular font needs. A font for programming must be
monospaced, extremely readable, and must sharply distinguish between similar characters,
such as capital O and zero and the number 1, capital I, and lowercase L. In addition,
good programming fonts allow you to view more lines of code on screen at once. Courier,
Courier New, Terminal, and FixedSys are common fonts people tend to use for programming.
However, there are many better alternatives… [Lockergnome's
Tech News Watch]
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