Where I discuss social and technical disciplines required for writing good scientific software.

Adobe yesterday released its free and open source Type family, Source Code Pro, which includes an eye-pleasing monospace font ideally suited for coding. In the past, and at the recommendation of Fernando Perez, I’ve used the beautiful (but non-free) Consolas by Microsoft; now, which is best?

To install on Linux:

1. Grab the font.
2. Copy the files to ~/.fonts.
3. Run fc-cache -f -v.

The font should now be available for selection in apps such as Firefox, Gnome Terminal, etc. To make it the default font in Emacs::