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Good font for code presentations?


There's a couple of good questions regarding screen fonts for coding.

I'm putting together some Keynote presentations that will contain

  • code fragments

  • screen dumps of terminal windows

And the usual Courier display is looking a bit tired.

What are some good fonts for each of these? I'm especially interested in the terminal window dumps, to make sure they are legible. Or perhaps I can cut and paste the characters from the terminal window and apply some formatting to make it look screen-dumpish?

My main goal are

  • legible on screen and in printed outlines

  • the screen dump especially should be legible, but still identifiable as a screen dump

  • demonstrate I'm a person of visual taste and refinement, lol.


Solution

  • I do a lot of such presentation and use Monaco for code and Chalkboard for text (within a template that, overall, has only small changes from the Blackboard one supplied with Keynote). Look at any of my presentations' PDFs (e.g. this one) and you can decide whether you like the effect.