When comparing Microsoft Segoe UI Mono vs ProFont, the Slant community recommends ProFont for most people. In the question“What are the best programming fonts?” ProFont is ranked 40th while Microsoft Segoe UI Mono is ranked 45th. The most important reason people chose ProFont is:
Anti-aliasing is useful for making it easier to understand, analyze and optimize programs in computing.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Great readability
Segoe UI Mono is a very readable font.
Pro Looks good and offers anti-aliasing
Anti-aliasing is useful for making it easier to understand, analyze and optimize programs in computing.
Pro Great legibility
ProFont is very legible at both low and high resolution displays.
Cons
Con The zero is not slashed
The zero is not slashed, which causes some problems when scanning source code. This is not an issue when the IDE supports coloring (like all major modern IDE's), but still there are instances where this is not the case. A primary example are T4 templates, where Microsoft has not yet provided coloring support.