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Linux: Liberation Mono (already in your distro as 'liberation-fonts'). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts

Windows: Consolas (install the Word 2007 viewer and you get it for free).



I second that. Liberation Mono rocks. And it is updated somewhat frequently, so it might be worth checking for a newer version or to install on a Mac. (they put a dot in the middle of zeros a while back, for instance)

https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liberation-fonts/


Agreed. I can't go past consolas on windows. With linux I wasn't aware of liberation (thanks for that !!), but I've always downloaded courier new.


For linux, I've switched from Liberation to Inconsolata, which was inspired by Consolas; you might want to check it out:

http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html


Thanks dude.




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