Comments on: Consolas: Visual Studio's Hidden Gem

By: mehmet ?anl?

mehmet ?anl? — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:35:54 +0000

Consolas: Visual Studio’s Hidden Gem great article thank you.

By: mvg

mvg — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:44:01 +0000

Consolas: Visual Studio’s Hidden Gem great article thank you.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:42:19 +0000

I really like the Proggy fonts, but currently I like using Envy Code R. It has a “VS” Visual Studio variant that maps the “bold” face to italic so that you can italicize elements.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:25:55 +0000

Yeah, Courier definitely looks a lot smoother and cleaner.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:16:37 +0000

From those images i prefer courier new. It looks much clearer

By: Max

Max — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:04:00 +0000

I would say your assumptions about the cleartype are the reason it’s not enabled by default. On XP especially lots of people don’t use cleartype. It looks bad on my monitor and it looks bad on my laptop. However, it looks good on my bigger monitor so I do use it there.

By: SoCo

SoCo — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:15:24 +0000

Ben Woodward – The page you link to….links to “programmer fonts,” which is infected with HTML:Iframe-inf virus.

By: LinuxFTW

LinuxFTW — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:03:07 +0000

@Ben Woodward

THANK YOU! I have been using Consolas on all my linux distributions, and the link you posted is a life saver. Consolas is a very lovely programming font, too bad its not free.

By: martinsm

martinsm — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:29:01 +0000

Also Consolas comes with Windows Vista. No download required.

By: David A. Rogers

David A. Rogers — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:58:24 +0000

There are a lot better programming fonts out there than consolas. Take a look at the proggy fonts for instance. Programming fonts need to be crisp at small sizes. Consolas is too fuzzy at small point sizes.