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title: Font Battle 2011
teaser:
tags: design,typography,vim,unix
author: Nick Quaranto
published_on: 2011-08-15
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A recent straw poll of text editor fonts at thoughtbot found these results. Not
all thoughtbot precincts have reported in. Perhaps you'd like to explore some
new font options for those walls of text you stare at for 8+ hours daily.

![''](https://docs.google.com/a/thoughtbot.com/spreadsheet/oimg?key=0AmoXIF665YMKdC1wYVhsaDZ1Wlg2alAzcEE3aGJuVmc&oid=1&zx=yna2fyg3pkk)

Some links to these fonts:

* [Mensch](http://robey.lag.net/2010/06/21/mensch-font.html)
* [Bitstream Vera Mono](http://www.dafont.com/bitstream-vera-mono.font)
* [Monaco](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco_(typeface))
* [Consolas](http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/family.aspx?FID=300)
* [Inconsolata](http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html)