When comparing MT OCR A Extended vs Berkeley Mono, the Slant community recommends Berkeley Mono for most people. In the question“What are the best programming fonts?” Berkeley Mono is ranked 55th while MT OCR A Extended is ranked 116th. The most important reason people chose Berkeley Mono is:
The font does not distract you with weird glyphs – but is interesting enough to be loved.
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 Plain enough
The font does not distract you with weird glyphs – but is interesting enough to be loved.
Pro Legible
The font is wide enough to be legible but not too much so you can actually fit some information on your screen.
Cons
Con Missing weights
The regular weight is a little bit light for me, I'm waiting for the medium weight.