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the number one 1 and the letter l

the number zero 0 and the letter O

which can be a burden. It took me quite some time to find a suitable font who met the following requirements:

- good readability:

On CRT, TFT monitors; at different font sizes especially with small font size (8,9,10,11,12); in bold and italic; when printing

- monospaced:

Spaces; normal font; bold font; italic font

- unambiguous letter-layout:

L l 1 i I | O o 0 Q (personally I like a dot in the 0 to distinguish it from a O)

- space saving, to get as much good readable code on a line as possible

The only font who meets my criteria is the (non-free?) 'Arial monospaced for SAP': which has the disadvantage that it does look ugly in italic.

-- Christian Goebel - 08 Jan 2005

I use the font Monaco at 10 points on Mac OS X. I can tell 1 from l and 0 from O very easily. I actually do not use any bold or italics in my editing though, I just use different colors.

-- Pete Prodoehl - 10 Jan 2005

See this URL for FMTYEWTK about the issue:

Monospace/Fixed Width Programmer's Fonts

Personally I'm using Bitstream Vera, as downloaded from the gnome.org site. The TI font also looked nice, but I had problems scaling up (big monitor). This strikes me as a convenience issue, and while a good font is important (important enough for me to go looking) it's something that can best be handled with a chapter in the manual.

-- Austin Hastings - 10 Oct 2005

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