1. Simon Cooke says:

   January 3, 2006 at 5:47 am

   ProFont? Pah :) I use Andale Mono instead – which was designed for programming too :)

2. Alexander Groß says:

   January 3, 2006 at 6:58 am

   Consolas (included in the windows Vista betas) is also pretty good for coding.

3. Marcel says:

   January 3, 2006 at 11:18 am

   "Living in America": Entertaining read, thanks.

   "Crashed cars of Kuwait": That reminds me of this http://www.stupidcollege.com/items/Crazy-Arab-Driving
   
   Notice the police car a minute into the video…
   

4. Adam G says:

   January 3, 2006 at 3:49 pm

   I really like ProFont – I’ve used it in my editor for a two years or so now. The readability at small size is amazing.

5. Starfish says:

   January 3, 2006 at 4:02 pm

   Profont user for two years, ever since it appeared on Joel on Software. Smaller is better!

   (tip: play SkiFree with the number pad, not the mouse, and reduce the keyboard repeat delay. The tricks earn you loads of points.)

6. memet says:

   January 3, 2006 at 11:07 pm

   I don’t know if I’m the only one, but if there’s anything I approve fully and love about Microsoft, it’s their default font selection. And this goes for the Visual Studio IDE as well.

   Who knows, maybe I’m just too used to it…

   I tried the pro font for about an hour, and then reverted back to the original Courier New.

7. John Elliott says:

   January 4, 2006 at 7:30 am

   I stayed with Courier until I found the truetype version of the One True Font, misc-fixed-semicondensed. <http://www.twoevils.org/html/files.html&gt;
   
   Other people have created bitmap versions of it which can be used in console windows.

8. Matt says:

   January 4, 2006 at 9:04 am

   Thanks for the pick up tips Raymond

9. Norman Diamond says:

   January 4, 2006 at 10:24 pm

   The downloadable files for ProFont look pretty small. They’re even smaller than the BOOTFONT.BIN file that Windows puts in the root directory of C: (along with NTLDR, BOOT.INI, etc.). This arouses suspicion that ProFont would likely only be usable for code that contains no comments or character strings.

10. Simon Mourier says:

    January 7, 2006 at 3:03 am

    Being an old ex-Microsoftee, I have used the old "MSMAIL3.FON" font for more than 10 years. The best programming font in my opinion! This profont is cool thought :-)

11. Dustin says:

    January 8, 2006 at 1:48 am

    Oh man, that ProFont makes me feel so leet. And the Windows Principal code is high-larious.

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