Consolas is perhaps the best looking programming font out there. A monospaced, ClearType font released by Microsoft’s typography team in the summer of 2006, Consolas is an ideal font for anyone who spends long durations of time looking at text. Recommended to me by one of my beginning programming instructors, it’s one of the only fonts I use while programming.

Consolas is part of the Microsoft ClearType Font Colletion (Constantia, Corbel, Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas) shipped with Windows Vista and Office 2007, but has been made available to download for programmers who use Visual Studio 2005.

Download The Consolas Font Pack for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

System Requirements

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003, Vista, XP
• Required Software: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

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