When comparing MT OCR A Extended vs Office Code Pro, the Slant community recommends Office Code Pro for most people. In the question“What are the best programming fonts?” Office Code Pro is ranked 44th while MT OCR A Extended is ranked 116th. The most important reason people chose Office Code Pro is:
The customizations were made specifically for text editors and coding environments, but are still very usable in other applications.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Easy to distinguish characters
You can clearly tell the difference between those troublesome characters like apostrophes and quotes. Each character is clearly (there's that word again) different from each other to make machine reading easier and work for humans as well.
Pro Modern and highly legible
The customizations were made specifically for text editors and coding environments, but are still very usable in other applications.
Pro Looks great
Sometimes it even works better than Source Code Pro for reading and writing.
Pro Works very well on Intelli J
This is useful for those who prefer using this environment.
Pro Integrates Powerline glyphs
The author added Powerline glyphs in version 1.002.