Fonts are a strange thing. I have a collection of hundreds of them, but I only actually use a few at most. I write all my letters using the same font, and I design every site with only a handful of them. There are just too many serif and sans-serif fonts to wade through to find the ones I like the best and frankly I don't care that much about which particular ones I use. The one area that I do care about is the monospaced or fixed width font that I use. I use fixed pitch fonts a lot, all my important work is either done in an xterm window, or is programming which I prefer to use a monospaced font even in a fancy IDE.
The problem this that font designers don't seem to care all that much about
monospaced fonts, most people don't have a use for them, so there aren't that
many to choose from relative to proportional fonts. Additionally in programming
it's important to clearly see the difference between "l", "1", "i", "I"
,
and "0", "o", "O"
. The less commonly used punctuation
characters are additionally more important than normal text.
After much searching I've concluded what others have also concluded. So this is my list of monospaced fonts:
See also: