A font for Visual Studio 2005?

June 30, 2006 at 2:44 pm

I've found a great .NET blog that I think I will be visiting quite frequently from now on. Bobby DeRosa is the guy behind C# Shiznit, a .NET blog that has a plethora of rants, raves, downloads, and news about .NET related topics.

In one of his recent blog posts he talks about finding a font called Consolas that is optimized for the Visual Studio 2005 development gui. After downloading the font and installing it, my first impressions are probably like most: YUK!

However, like Bobby said in his post, after using it for a few days, it sort of grows on you. Yah, the tab spacing and code block indenting isn't as "pretty" as with Courier, but the new Consolas font family opens up a tremendious amount of code workspace, and that is one thing I definately like.

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I am Jeremy Helms, 28 year old graphic designer, web designer, site architect, programmer, copywriter and ambitious entrepreneur. I was born and live in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. This site is my personal periodical for design, code, business and other topics. When I'm not glued to the computer, I enjoy music, movies, late-night television and sometimes a good night out on the town with friends.

I began professional work in the IT industry 13 years ago in September, 1995. I started my first business in 1998, incorporated my second business in 2001, my third in 2002 and my fourth and most recent in 2006. I am a sponge — I am constantly exploring and learning — about business, design, programming, history, society, and whatever pops up on blogs across the web.

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