Real Old School Programming

[Gordon JC Pearce]

Jim Leonard wrote:
> woodelf wrote:
> 
>> Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> They look pretty distinct to me (X11, font is Vera Sans Mono).  By 
>>> "modern displays" what exactly do you mean?
>>>
>> My font is the delault windows netscape mail-reader font.
> 
> 
> That would be Courier New if you didn't touch the defaults.  I haven't 
> either, and I do agree that l and 1 are barely distinguishable.
> 
> About a month ago, there was a thread in this group about finding an 
> alternative "system" monospaced font -- was a concensus ever reached? 
> Any download links, anyone?

Bitstream Vera is free as in beer and free as in speech.
http://www.bitstream.com/font_rendering/products/dev_fonts/vera.html
Presumably Windows can handle TrueType fonts.

Gordon.