Good font for code presentations

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There s a couple of good questions regarding screen fonts for coding   I m putting together some Keynote presentations that will contain   code fragments screen dumps of terminal windows   And the usual Courier display is looking a bit tired   What are some good fonts for each of these   I m especially interested in the terminal window dumps  to make sure they are legible   Or perhaps I can cut and paste the characters from the terminal window and apply some formatting to make it look screen-dumpish   My main goal are   legible on screen and in printed outlines the screen dump especially should be legible  but still identifiable as a screen dump demonstrate I m a person of visual taste and refinement  lol

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I do a lot of such presentation and use Monaco for code and Chalkboard for text  within a template that  overall  has only small changes from the Blackboard one supplied with Keynote   Look at any of my presentations  PDFs  e g  this one  and you can decide whether you like the effect

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I like Calibri

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Do you want people to focus on the content  and demonstrate that you re a person of taste and good sense  Stay with Courier  Don t innovate just because you can  otherwise  why not craft exquisite animations for every slide transition  with dancing letters         Courier has several advantages    Excellent readability in low resolutions   Fixed width preserves indentation   Serifed fonts link letters  allowing people to understand words and identifiers as a whole  gestalt perception   Nonserifed fonts should only be used for headlines  Tried and true  people will immediately understand it s code    If you want to dump point 4  at least choose an alternative that preserves points 1-3  Never allow form to trump function

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If you are doing a presentation  and you don t care about anything lining up  Verdana is a good choice    If you are going to distribute your presentation  use a font that you know is on everyone s machine  since using something else is going to cause the machine to fall back to one of the common fonts  like Arial or Times  anyway   If you do care about things lining up  and are not distributing the presentation  consider Consolas     It is highly legible  reminiscent of Verdana  and is monospaced   The color choices are  of course  a matter of taste

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I prefer Consolas

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I use DejaVu Sans Mono at Size 16   UPDATE   I have switched to Envy Code R for coding and Anonymous Pro for terminal

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I m personally very fond of Inconsolata

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Lucida Console  good  but a little short  Lucida Sans Typewriter  taller  smaller character set  Andale Mono is very clear   But this has been answered here before

[fonts] Good font for code presentations?

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