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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 versions. As an asid