Good font for code presentations?

Question

(update: I know there's several questions regarding fixed-width fonts for coding... that's why I mentioned it in the first sentence of this question. I'm specifically investigating fonts for projected presentations and printed handout notes.)

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.

Answer 1

• Lucida Console (good, but a little short)
• Lucida Sans Typewriter (taller, smaller character set)
• Andale Mono is very clear

But this has been answered here before.

Answer 2

I'm personally very fond of Inconsolata

Answer 3

I prefer Consolas.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

Do you want people to focus on the content, and demonstrate that you're a person of taste and good sense? Stay with Courier. Don't innovate just because you can (otherwise, why not craft exquisite animations for every slide transition, with dancing letters...?).

Courier has several advantages:

1. Excellent readability in low resolutions.
2. Fixed width preserves indentation.
3. Serifed fonts link letters, allowing people to understand words and identifiers as a whole (gestalt perception). Nonserifed fonts should only be used for headlines.
4. Tried and true: people will immediately understand it's code.

If you want to dump point 4, at least choose an alternative that preserves points 1-3. Never allow form to trump function.

Answer 6

I like Calibri.

Answer 7

I use DejaVu Sans Mono at Size 16.