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As much as choice of a font is subjective there are important criteria to consider when choosing a programming font. The characters should be clear, easy to read, in cases of clashing ones such as 1, l, i or O, o, 0 easily distinguishable, differences between different kinds of brackets, quotes and parentheses should be clear, punctuation should be emphasized and they shouldn't break up words or sentences due to uneven character widths.

There are two ways fonts are drawn - as b...

These days, monospaced typefaces are synonymous with code, but it wasn’t always so. Western monospaced typefaces were initially designed to be used on typewriters where the technical limitations dictated that each character needed to be the same physical width to align correctly. Consequently, no additional work was required to space the letters, creating a writing environment that was simple and effective.