Slant rounds up the most popular monospace fonts good for cranking code. Adobe's Source Code Pro is top of the pile, but Consolas is only a couple of votes off. My favorite? Orator 10 (not Orator Std), an oldie from the Selectric days. [via HN]
The most popular coding fonts
"Times New Dumbass" is a font inspired by the owner of Xitter
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Is this the Quake font?
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Thames New Roman: how the famed Doves Type was rescued from the bottom of a river
Early in the 20th century, London printer T.J. Cobden-Sanderson dumped the beautiful Doves Type into the river during a business dispute. As the only lead they had, that meant the… READ THE REST
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This MacBook is less than $400
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