While not a complete list by any stretch, this article will hopefully at least serve as a collection of some pretty decent typefaces for text editors and IDEs.  As for the reasons why one would need to put any real thought into what typeface to use in his or her editor, consider the following things that experience has rendered.   A programmer's font should:   Avoid ambiguity between characters.  This is specifically true for characters such as 1  and l , and 0  and O .  Should be clear even when italicized.  Many editors italicize comments by default.  Be mono-spaced, which will assist with justification.     Panic Sans  There is no place to download this font as it ships with Panic  Coda .   DejaVu Mono  http://www.dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page   Droid Sans Mono  http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/droid-font-family-courtesy-of-google-ascender    NOTE:   The items above are URLs to packages of fonts that include the specifically named sans, mono, et cetera ve...
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