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Anonymous Pro

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mccauls7
Laura Kyle
Slimothy

Pro
Readable even at small sizes

Anonymous Pro is easily legible at small sizes as a bitmap font.

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Marco Trevisan

Pro
The best rendering character for DIGIT ONE

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mccauls7
Slimothy

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Clashing characters are clearly distinguishable

Characters that could be mistaken for one another (O, 0, I, l, 1, etc.) have distinct shapes to make them easier to tell apart in the context of source code.

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Know any positive aspects of this option?

Cons

DecentRhea
Nail Samatov

Con
Small 'l' (ell) is too similar to big 'I' (Eye)

You can tell the difference but need to concentrate on the letters.
See the word "Illegal" as an example.
It would be better if serifs are a little bit wider for the big 'I' (Eye) letter.

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Nail Samatov

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Smaller than other monospace fonts

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mccauls7
Laura Kyle
Joseph Winters

Con
Small punctuation makes readability difficult

In some programs it's hard to see punctuation marks, especially periods and colons.

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Антон Ширяев

Con
Smaller then other monospaced fonts

Size 13 of Source Code Pro is slightly larger then size 14 of Anonymous Pro.

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JackRedstonia

Con
"0" glitch

The 0 (zero) symbol has a 'dent' on the left.

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Laura Kyle
Orac

Con
Exaggerated italics

The italicized version of the font is too slanted, meaning that italicized comments in code look really unbalanced.

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Kamil Renczewski

Con
Hard to distinguish [ and {

Braces [] and {} are very similar.

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Know any negative aspects of this option?

Recommendations

ModestNotus
ModestNotus
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Anonymous Pro
Recommended 2 years ago
Fantastic font for everyday programming. I've used it for a couple of years on multiple machines, and it's always treated me well. Readable at many sizes, an comfortable on the eyes for extended use.
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 Readable even at small sizes
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Jūbei Kurosaki
Jūbei
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Anonymous Pro
Recommended 4 years ago
It's one of the few fonts on this page that are not sans serif. Maybe it's because I've learned to code in the early '90s and even late '80s that I prefer serif fonts (i.e., those with the attractive and differentiating ligatures attached instead of the sans ones that look like random squ...
Con
 Smaller then other monospaced fonts
Con
 "0" glitch
Pro
 The best rendering character for DIGIT ONE
Pro
 Readable even at small sizes
Pro
 Clashing characters are clearly distinguishable
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