[jballanc]

For me, requirements for a good programming font are:

- Easy to distinguish 1, l, and |

- Zero with a slash

- Lowercase g open on bottom (two circles is too cluttered)

Surprisingly, with those simple rules the only font on the list that gets all 3 is Monaco. (My personal choice, Menlo, also gets all 3.)

[huhtenberg]

> - Zero with a slash

Debatable. Zero is typically narrower than uppercase O, so it is trivial to distinguish them even without the slash that merely adds to the visual noise.

[jballanc]

Sure, but that assumes that you have a 0 and an O sitting right next to each other to compare. That said, the reason I don't like dotted-0 is because I feel it's too noisy. I think a slash is the right balance...but that's me ;-)