Font Treat for the Programmers Eyes

As a programmer, I’ve always disliked the monospaced “default” fonts like courier, courier new or monaco etc. I tried to use the great Consolas font from Microsoft under Linux and MacOsX with mixed but disappointing results, as Consolas is mainly created to be used with cleartype smoothing which is only available on Windows. Upon searching for alternatives, I found Inconsolata:

Inconsolata looks much like Consolas, and also looks very good under OsX. A treat for the eyes, and a pleasure to work with. Highly recommended.