Adobe Source Code Pro vs Code New Roman

The characters in Source Code Pro are easily readable. They have consistent widths across all weights as to not break up words. Commonly used programming symbols (such as various kinds of brackets) are made easily discernible from each other while various punctuation marks are made bigger than normal. This makes them especially good for programmers who keep staring at code for hours.

The characters have been made in such a way that they are easily discernible and usable regardless of font size, weight, and display.

The font is licensed under SIL open font license with source code available on GitHub. Being an open source font, it's also reasonable to expect incremental upgrades and additions to character sets and functionality.

Characters are evenly spaced, making for better readability.

The font works particularly well when it is in print.

The code comes with seven style variants: ExtraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold, and Black.

The beta release version of Source Code Pro introduced italicized characters on Jul 18, 2015.

The font is hosted on Google Web Fonts directory, meaning that it can be easily embedded in web pages.

Powerline symbols are useful for programmers to display a nicer status bar or mode-line on Vim and Emacs.

A version of Source Code Pro with support for common Haskell composite glyphs such as >>= is available here. An editor with ligature support, such as Leksah, is required.

The Light and Extra Light weights make the font less "bold" looking when reading.

Code New Roman is published under SIL Open Font License making it completely free.

Code New Roman seems like a mix of Monaco and Consolas, but looks very well on retina monitors.

It's comfortable for the user to read Code New Roman for long periods. OpenType features include hanging or lining numerals (slashed, dotted, and normal zeros) as well as alternative shapes for a number of lowercase letters.

You can download and install it on Windows vista or higher (for cleartype technology support) and Mac OSX.

Code New Roman offers Regular, Bold , Italic, and Bold-Italic typefaces.

Code New Roman has been tested on cheap Dell Inspiron with Ubuntu 14.04 installed and looks great on gtk-based apps such as Sublime Text, Geany, and TextAdept. It's also great on Qt-based apps such as KDevelop and Spyder. For electron/nwjs-based applications, it looks great on Visual Studio Code and Brackets, but has yet been tested on atom. However, it looks horrible on Swing-based apps such as Netbeans or Jetbrains' IDE.

Code New Roman is available in English.

This means that jaggies are reduced, making the line smoother.