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Gohu
"Gohufont is a monospace bitmap font well suited for programming and terminal use. It is intended to be very legible and offers very discernable glyphs for all characters, including signs and symbols."
With bitmaps for two sizes, normal and bold, this is a very simple and practical font. All character shapes are different, so no confusion between o's and zeros. If you're up for tiny aliased type, you can fit loads of code on a screen with Gohu.
By Hugo Chargois
License: WTFPL
http://font.gohu.org
#free #sans #pixel #programming #fonts #typography
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Crystal
Not much is known about this seemingly freely available font. It has a slashed zero, but lacks bold and italic. Also, it's character set is very limited and omits things like the euro and copyright signs (although it does include box drawing characters).
By Jerry Fitzpatrick
http://www.dafont.com/crystal.font
#sans #free #programming #fonts #typography
Everson Mono
"Everson Mono is a simple, elegant, monowidth font. I started designing it in 1994 primarily to make glyphs available to support the non-Han characters in Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646, though I hope that users may find it a pleasant alternative to Courier and Monaco for general purposes, e-mail, and so forth. I have found it quite legible at sizes as small as 4 points. It is lighter and a bit looser than Courier."
Michael Everson's project has been running for over 20 years. As a result this is a well rounded font with impressive coverage. In recent years it has been updated with bold and italic versions. The interests of the creator of Everson Mono are reflected in the many languages in Evertype Publishing's portfolio. As a writer's font, it lacks a distinct zero.
By Michael Everson (1994)
http://www.evertype.com/emono/
#shareware #1994 #sans #active development #programming #fonts #typography
Nimbus Mono L
Nimbus Mono has been packaged with Ghostscript and many Linux distributions. The Ghostscript fonts were licensed under the LPPL, enabling a number of derivative fonts like TeX Gyre Cursor. Like Courier it lacks a distinct zero, but it does come in bold and italic.
By URW++ Studio (1984)
License: GNU GPL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbus_Mono_L
#serif #1984 #writing #nimbus #commercial #professional #fonts #typography
Selectric
This font, that seems to be available freely, has a name that refers to the IBM Selectric. Like Courier before it, it seems to be derived from that typewriter. It might not be the best choice for coding (no distinct zero), but good typewriter fonts are still great for writing.
By Paradox 2005 http://www.dafont.com/paradox-2005.d961
#sans #writing #fonts #typography #free
Terminus
"Terminus Font is a clean, fixed width bitmap font, designed for long (8 and more hours per day) work with computers. Version 4.39 contains 891 characters, covers about 120 language sets and supports ISO8859-1/2/5/7/9/13/15/16, Paratype-PT154/PT254, KOI8-R/U/E/F, Esperanto, many IBM, Windows and Macintosh code pages, as well as the IBM VGA, vt100 and xterm pseudographic characters."
Terminus is a very complete bitmap font, with very clean and clear rendering at a number of sizes. It's coverage is impressive, and even features a bold weight. The zero is slahed to set it apart. Sadly the links on the sourceforge site are broken.
By Dimitar Zhekov
License: SIL-OFL
Format incompatible
http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net
#pixel #free #sans #programming #fonts #typography
Consolas
This may be the single best programming font for Windows. It was created specifically for ClearType and is included in Windows Vista and onward. Consolas features true bold and italic, a slashed zero and great coverage (2736 glyphs).
By Lucas de Groot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas
#sans #commercial #professional #consolas #programming #fonts #typography
Letter Gothic
"Designed for IBM between 1956 and 1962 for use on the Selectric typewriter, Letter Gothic is a monospaced, sans serif face."
A classic, designed for typewriter font, that's still great for reading and writing. It's a complete set of regular, bold and oblique, 253 glyphs in each. It doesn't have a distinct zero, but it's a wonderful retro typeface none-the-less.
By Roger Roberson (1956)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_Gothic
http://www.fonts.com/font/monotype/letter-gothic
#retro #1956 #sans #commercial #writing #professional #fonts #typography
Lucida Console
It has been extended to include mathematical characters for TeX. First created almost 30, Lucida Console has been updated in 2014 to include bold and italic, and it's now the default Notepad font in Windows 8.
By Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes (1985)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucida_(typeface)
#1985 #latex #bigelow #holmes #sans #commercial #professional #programming #fonts #typography
Nu Sans Monospaced
Inspired by the IBM Selectric, Nu Sans was designed as a sans alternative to Courier. It features a slahed zero and has in later years been upgraded with bold and italic versions.
By Scooter Graphics (1996)
http://www.scootergraphics.com/nusansmono/index.html
#sans #courier #commercial #1996 #programming #fonts #typography